Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
  sha1_file: link() returns -1 on failure, not errno
  Make git archive respect core.autocrlf when creating zip format archives
  Add new test to demonstrate git archive core.autocrlf inconsistency
  gitweb: avoid warnings for commits without body
  Clarified gitattributes documentation regarding custom hunk header.
  git-svn: fix handling of even funkier branch names
  git-svn: Always create a new RA when calling do_switch for svn://
  git-svn: factor out svnserve test code for later use
  diff/diff-files: do not use --cc too aggressively

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/builtin-diff-files.c b/builtin-diff-files.c
index 9bf10bb37e..2b578c714d 100644
--- a/builtin-diff-files.c
+++ b/builtin-diff-files.c
@@ -50,7 +50,12 @@ int cmd_diff_files(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	    3 < rev.max_count)
 		usage(diff_files_usage);
 
-	if (rev.max_count == -1 &&
+	/*
+	 * "diff-files --base -p" should not combine merges because it
+	 * was not asked to.  "diff-files -c -p" should not densify
+	 * (the user should ask with "diff-files --cc" explicitly).
+	 */
+	if (rev.max_count == -1 && !rev.combine_merges &&
 	    (rev.diffopt.output_format & DIFF_FORMAT_PATCH))
 		rev.combine_merges = rev.dense_combined_merges = 1;