"git log --first-parent -p" showed patches only for single-parent
commits on the first-parent chain; the "--first-parent" option has
been made to imply "-m". Use "--no-diff-merges" to restore the
previous behaviour to omit patches for merge commits.
* jk/log-fp-implies-m:
doc/git-log: clarify handling of merge commit diffs
doc/git-log: move "-t" into diff-options list
doc/git-log: drop "-r" diff option
doc/git-log: move "Diff Formatting" from rev-list-options
log: enable "-m" automatically with "--first-parent"
revision: add "--no-diff-merges" option to counteract "-m"
log: drop "--cc implies -m" logic
This reverts commit 489947cee5, which
stopped treating merges into the 'master' branch as special when
preparing the default merge message. As the goal was not to have
any single branch designated as special, it solved it by leaving the
"into <branchname>" at the end of the title of the default merge
message for any and all branches. An obvious and easy alternative
to treat everybody equally could have been to remove it for every
branch, but that involves loss of information.
We'll introduce a new mechanism to let end-users specify merges into
which branches would omit the "into <branchname>" from the title of
the default merge message, and make the mechanism, when unconfigured,
treat the traditional 'master' special again, so all the changes to
the tests we made earlier will become unnecessary, as these tests
will be run without configuring the said new mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using "--first-parent" to consider history as a single line of
commits, git-log still defaults to treating merges specially, even
though they could be considered as single commits in the linearized
history (that just introduce all of the changes from the second and
higher parents).
Let's instead have "--first-parent" imply "-m", which makes something
like:
git log --first-parent -p
do what you'd expect. Likewise:
git log --first-parent -Sfoo
will find "foo" in merge commits.
No new test is needed; we'll tweak the output of the existing
"--first-parent -p" test, which now matches the "-m --first-parent -p"
test. The unchanged existing test for "--no-diff-merges" confirms that
the user can get the old behavior if they want.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the context of many projects renaming their primary branch names away
from `master`, Git wants to stop treating the `master` branch specially.
Let's start with `git fmt-merge-msg`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
