Re: how do you review auto-resolved files

On 02/21/2012 10:19 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Imagine that you are the maintainer of the mainline and are reviewing the
work made on a side branch that you just merged, but pretend that the
contribution came as a patch instead.  How would you assess the damage to
your mainline?

You would use "git show --first-parent $commit" for that.

Hi,
it seems that git show --first-parent is not documented in the man page.
This option is only documented for rev-list and log. I think that
- this example should land in Examples in git-show.txt
- --first-parent should be documented in git-show.txt because it (at 
least to me, but I guess that for other people also) it isn't 
immediately obvious that it means to _diff_ with the first parent.

--
Zbyszek