Re: Feature request on git log --oneline <revision range> -- <path>...

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] writes:

What do you think such an option should do when it finds negative path
specs, e.g. this on git.git:

    git log --oneline --stat -- ':!/Makefile' '*Makefile*'

Should it only render positive matches, or distinguish between
matched/blacklisted/not-matched, your example (with no negative
patspecs) just shows matched/not-matched.

Another thing to consider is what this would do to the merge
simplification.

If I understand it correctly, this is sort-of like a reverse of the
"--full-diff" option, where the pathspec *is* used to limit and
simplify the history, but for the purpose of displaying "log -p"
output, the pathspec is widened to show the entire change.  This
instead makes the traversal ignore the pathspec and uses it only to
limit the "log -p" output.  I do not think I would be fundamentally
opposed to a feature like this.