On 07/15/2013 02:12 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote:

Stefan Beller [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

However I sometimes also get:
sb@sb:~/OSS/git$ git show --format="%ad" 0da7a53
Fri Jul 12 10:49:34 2013 -0700

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt

b/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.

Thanks, that's exactly what I am looking for.
Stefan