Re: git-feed-mail-list.sh

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> On Tue, 9 May 2006, Bertrand Jacquin wrote:
>
>> On 5/9/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>> > 
>> > Ie you could probably more easily parse the data from something like
>> > 
>> >         git show -B --patch-with-stat --pretty=fuller $commit
>> 
>> Is there a way to track merge like that ? Documentation is not very
>> clear and near from empty.
>
> Sure.
>
> If you want to track merges and get their patches, add the "--cc" flag, 
> which tells git to use the "conflict combination patch" that shows any 
> visible conflicts.

Actually, show defaults to --cc so what's shown is good as is.

> That said, the diffstat for merges is usually just a lot of noise. It's 
> sometimes nice (you've merged from a topic branch), but if you have merged 
> from the mainline _into_ a topic branch, it's just annoying.

True.  We made --cc --patch-with-stat to do the combined patch
text with diffstat for first-parent-diff to make it most natural
for merging into upstream, not merging from upstream.