Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2022-09-15

Re: [PATCH 3/3] diff-merges: clarify log.diffMerges documentation

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2022-09-15 18:43:17

Sergey Organov [off-list ref] writes:
quoted hunk
Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <redacted>
---
 Documentation/config/log.txt | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config/log.txt b/Documentation/config/log.txt
index 5250ba45fb4e..cbe34d759221 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/log.txt
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ log.excludeDecoration::
 	option.
 
 log.diffMerges::
-	Set default diff format to be used for merge commits. See
-	`--diff-merges` in linkgit:git-log[1] for details.
-	Defaults to `separate`.
+	Set diff format to be used when `--diff-merges=on` is
+	specified, see `--diff-merges` in linkgit:git-log[1] for
+	details. Defaults to `separate`.
 
 log.follow::
 	If `true`, `git log` will act as if the `--follow` option was used when
Is the reason why the patch drops "default" because the value given
is used only when --diff-merges=on is given, and does not kick in
when "--diff-merges=<format>" is explicitly given?

The rest of the change does make sense.

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