From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: git log fails to show all changes for a file Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 12:17:28 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20150714073035.GA22707@aepfle.de> <20150714074508.GE1451@serenity.lan> <20150714075955.GA24577@aepfle.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Olaf Hering , John Keeping , Git Mailing List To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 15 21:17:35 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZFSBS-0003zK-BH for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2015 21:17:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753709AbbGOTR3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:17:29 -0400 Received: from mail-ig0-f175.google.com ([209.85.213.175]:35214 "EHLO mail-ig0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753327AbbGOTR3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:17:29 -0400 Received: by igcqs7 with SMTP id qs7so114873456igc.0 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2015 12:17:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=O+cV7mwJABEQRE4B9jKOhiaSidPyOuo3xuPBdJlHr1E=; b=m2Zq79p1Wt6W12ZDQDqRQqutE53xe6Dj8tOtQFssjSrxSnjvq4Spu8YfPBoQ/2I8L1 YICd6+8viYSC3BSrYRYLh7T45DELiUNDDO5vkf/jwP+EmjjLQQ5rgeuB9dvElY3qJLUy DnKz2ltvx1vVYGoj4b9YZqJRFSTSH2n49FAlpaAkf3GxMq8uyK2PD344i6vt++thN/We KTNPzIgMfgZnfbOI2FzVxustwokd6kY+lcJ+9/i5REb873r8GPNObdI1CkII0y5NyQYl fKcxkrtP9C/FHoewu4xX/7dV6cpzBAGXcKvpqe0g1acFT5OrQn3KNxlw78SLtx/63sX8 9zOw== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linux-foundation.org; s=google; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=O+cV7mwJABEQRE4B9jKOhiaSidPyOuo3xuPBdJlHr1E=; b=IFNphITkdcqkdWBYp6Jpij2jtWGXjanw2Uje4wTEn0TpkXDdHCgip6xT9cIfBQSQqy cbeTojTYNn/hgEFDFl+wsazeM+Mz/QVk9cFaxcVDDWXdF69GR2jARuStRqWUwFyXj1PP UkYLwC5MXjkRmzNDO5FR+Kwq8wKDhQ56y/dNk= X-Received: by 10.107.137.154 with SMTP id t26mr6803574ioi.13.1436987848468; Wed, 15 Jul 2015 12:17:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.78.7 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Jul 2015 12:17:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: t0OYiQXVhJw3XW6SiwaZoecEjJg Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> So this is a suggested change to "-p -m" behavior? > > Not really. This is a suggested behaviour for "git log -p" Oh, in that case I say NAK NAK NAK. That would be totally horrible, and completely unacceptable. I do "git log -p" all the time, and merge-diffs with --first-parent are regularly hundreds of thousands of lines for the kernel. So no. That is COMPLETELY unacceptable. Not even worth discussing. Linus