Re: The merge from hell...

[Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>]

On 2/2/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Marco Costalba wrote:
> >
> > Currently the public git repo version of qgit uses "git-diff-tree -c"
> > for merges, It's not a problem to change qgit to use --cc option
> > instead. But I would like to use just one kind of option to filter
> > merges files.
>
> I think using "-c" rather than "--cc" is fine, and if it makes parsing
> easier..
>
> The "--cc" option should show less "noise", an dI'm actually arguing that
> it should show even less than it does now (for when the branches agreed
> with each other, and there was no actual conflict, which is what I think
> is more useful), but I don't think "-c" is _wrong_ either.
>
> Using "-c" is a strange kind of "show all differences in a file that had
> file-level merges" while at least to me "--cc" is meant to be more of a
> "show all actual file-level CONFLICTS where the merge actually did
> something different"


Ok i tried using --cc. But then as per the man page if the
optimization makes the all the hunks disapper then commit log is not
show unless -m is used. Is there a way to get the commit log printed.
BTW using -m didn't show any difference even though man page said
about some difference

-aneesh