From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: ltuikov@yahoo.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable tree (directory) history display
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:01:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v3bdmf2p6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060701024309.63001.qmail@web31805.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (Luben Tuikov's message of "Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:43:09 -0700 (PDT)")
Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> writes:
> I took a comparative look with and without "--full-history",
> and FWIW, enabling full history just clobbers the output with a lot
> of unnecessary information. I.e. it shows merges which do not have
> direct consequence or change to the files in the path spec specified
> after the "--".
>...
> FWIW, I think that the original intention (had there been a choice)
> would've been to show only most relevant history, i.e. changes
> directly related to paths and files after the "--".
Sounds sane. Maybe we should clearly explain this behaviour
change in the commit log and claim it as an improvement. We
might even want to do --no-merges if we go that route.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-01 3:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-01 1:00 [PATCH] Enable tree (directory) history display Luben Tuikov
2006-07-01 2:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-01 2:43 ` Luben Tuikov
2006-07-01 3:01 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2006-07-01 3:10 ` Luben Tuikov
2006-07-01 3:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-01 3:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-01 22:45 ` Luben Tuikov
2006-07-01 19:38 ` Luben Tuikov
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