Jeff King writes:
> I am sympathetic, though. There are some things that git-log can do that
> rev-list cannot, so people end up using it in scripts. I think you can
> avoid it with a "rev-list | diff-tree" pipeline, though I'm not 100%
> sure if that covers all cases. But I would much rather see
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 11:53:37AM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> That reminds me of my attempt to add those "categories" to the man pages
> of each command (rather than just to that of "git") so that users know
> where they landed. It died off, though: I preferred just specifying the
> category
Jacob Keller venit, vidit, dixit 23.07.2015 08:55:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Jeff King wrote:
>> "man git" already has such a list (which is generated from the
>> annotations in command-list.txt). But I agree that it would probably be
>> helpful to point people directly from "git log" to
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> "man git" already has such a list (which is generated from the
> annotations in command-list.txt). But I agree that it would probably be
> helpful to point people directly from "git log" to "git rev-list" and
> vice versa.
>
> -Peff
That's good
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:32:49PM -0700, Jacob Keller wrote:
> Agreed. Fix the plumbing instead and document how/why to use it
> instead of the porcelain. We might do better to help clearly document
> which commands are porcelain and which are plumbing maybe by
> referencing which plumbings to us
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 10:48 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 10:14:45PM -0700, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> Script writers should not care here, because they should not be parsing
>> the output of the porcelain "log" command in the first place. It already
>> has many gotchas (e.g., log.da
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 10:14:45PM -0700, Jeff King wrote:
> Script writers should not care here, because they should not be parsing
> the output of the porcelain "log" command in the first place. It already
> has many gotchas (e.g., log.date, log.abbrevCommit).
>
> I am sympathetic, though. Ther
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 09:40:10PM -0700, David Aguilar wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 06:23:44PM -0700, Jeff King wrote:
> > This patch adds an option to turn on --first-parent all the
> > time, along with the corresponding --no-first-parent to
> > disable it.
>
> [Putting on my scripter hat]
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 06:23:44PM -0700, Jeff King wrote:
> This patch adds an option to turn on --first-parent all the
> time, along with the corresponding --no-first-parent to
> disable it.
[Putting on my scripter hat]
I sometimes think, "it would be really helpful if we had a way
to tell Git
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