Re: git log -p file.c

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

[Cc: git@vger.kernel.org]

Uwe Kleine-Koenig wrote:

> when I run
> 
>       git log -p file.c
> 
> I don't get the complete change a commit introduces but only how file.c
> changed.  This is kind of surprising for me, I had expected to get the
> whole diff.

Try unfortunately _undocumented_ --full-diff option to git-log.

        git log -p --full-diff -- file.c

(the --full-diff option was introduced in commit-477f2b41 without adding
appropriate info to Documentation/git-log.txt)

> And is it intended that (clean) merges are shown?

Path limiting simplifies history, and might linearize it (i.e. merges
become non-merges).

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Jakub Narebski
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