Git show on merge commit

I always use git show to see the changes for the last commit or git show sha1 to see the changes from a specific commit.

I rarely use git merge commits and recently I was working on a project that had a merge commit. When I did git show sha1 on that merge commit nothing showed up. Then I discovered that you can pass the -m option and it shows all the diff on that merge commit.

git show -m sha1 

Pretty neat!

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