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diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index 81c0e6f184..b9fb7a86bd 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt @@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ options may be given. See linkgit:git-diff-files[1] for more options. -c:: - This flag changes the way a merge commit is displayed. It shows - the differences from each of the parents to the merge result + With this option, diff output for a merge commit + shows the differences from each of the parents to the merge result simultaneously instead of showing pairwise diff between a parent and the result one at a time. Furthermore, it lists only files which were modified from all parents. @@ -121,6 +121,15 @@ options may be given. See linkgit:git-diff-files[1] for more options. the parents have only two variants and the merge result picks one of them without modification. +-m:: + + This flag makes the merge commits show the full diff like + regular commits; for each merge parent, a separate log entry + and diff is generated. An exception is that only diff against + the first parent is shown when '--first-parent' option is given; + in that case, the output represents the changes the merge + brought _into_ the then-current branch. + -r:: Show recursive diffs. |