Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Support --verbose in git history

[Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>]

On 09/11/2026 12:43, D. Ben Knoble wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2026 at 7:06 AM Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> My preference would be to make this (current patch) default behavior and
>> not even have an option. I don't see a disadvantage of having the diff
>> always being shown and it definitely is a better default to have.
> 
> When the diff is extremely long, or if the user has other means of
> obtaining it and wants the editor to open quickly, it may not be
> desired. So I'd prefer to still have it optional, personally.

Another case where we might not want the diff is scripted editing as it 
is much easier if the script does not have to worry about the diff 
getting in the way of its edits. Personally I'd be happy to see this on 
by default - the history command is marked as experimental so if having 
it on by default rather than following "commit.verbose" proves to be 
problematic we can always change it in the future. If we were staring 
again I'd also make "commit.verbose" on by default as well so maybe I'm 
biased.

Thanks

Phillip