Re: Bug in "git show"?
From: Matthieu Moy <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:58:10
Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)
- 2016-06-15 · Bug in "git show"? · Stefan Beller <hidden>
From: Matthieu Moy <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:58:10
Stefan Beller [off-list ref] writes:
However I sometimes also get: sb@sb:~/OSS/git$ git show --format="%ad" 0da7a53 Fri Jul 12 10:49:34 2013 -0700diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txtb/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt index 0e50df8..4250e5a 100644--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
"git show" will show the diff by default. For merge commits, it shows the --cc diff which is often empty, hence the behavior you see. You want to use "git show -s", which suppresses the patch output. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/