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Subject: Re: [PATCH] custom log formats for "diff --submodule=log"
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On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 06:35:16PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> > Don't you mean `git diff` in place of `git log -p`
> > though?  I don't think `git log --submodule` does anything differently
> > from `git log`.
> 
> Sorry for the nonsense.  I just realized that it affects the diffs
> shown by `git log -p`.

Right. I don't know if that is a common workflow (I do not really use
submodules), but it was the first thing I tried when I heard about
--submodule (and it does make sense to me that it would work).

But the logic could apply equally well to:

  git diff --submodule=log:%an

-Peff