This has been the default since
170c04383b (Porcelain level "log" family
should recurse when diffing., 2007-08-27). There's not even a way to
turn it off, so you'd never even want "-r" to override that.
It's not the default for plumbing like diff-tree, of course, but the
option is documented separately there.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
in that case, the output represents the changes the merge
brought _into_ the then-current branch.
--r::
- Show recursive diffs.
-
-t::
- Show the tree objects in the diff output. This implies `-r`.
+ Show the tree objects in the diff output.
:git-log: 1
include::diff-options.txt[]