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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Inconsistencies with git log
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:51:55 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d4uhaf3o.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910711071503va92a653s25fd978989d5917d@mail.gmail.com> (Jon Smirl's message of "Wed\, 7 Nov 2007 18\:03\:12 -0500")

"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:
> But if you type 'git log' while cd'd into a subdirectory the whole log
> is almost never what you want. It's this kind of thing that makes git
> harder to use.

Actually I almost always want the "whole project history" when cd'd to a
subdir.

Git's convention of doing the whole project by default, but allowing "."
(or any other directory name) to narrow it down seems almost perfect to
me.

-Miles

-- 
"Don't just question authority,
Don't forget to question me."
-- Jello Biafra

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-10 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-07 22:15 Inconsistencies with git log Jon Smirl
2007-11-07 22:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-07 22:45   ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-07 22:58     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-07 23:03       ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-07 23:11         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-07 23:16           ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-07 23:29           ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-08  0:04             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-08  0:09               ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-08  0:16                 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-08  0:35                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-09 15:54                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-09 17:20                   ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-09 17:38                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-09 17:53                       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-09 18:04                         ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-09 18:14                           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-09 18:22                         ` Peter Baumann
2007-11-09 18:35                           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-09 18:37                             ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-09 18:39                             ` Peter Baumann
2007-11-09 18:36                           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-09 17:41                     ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-08  9:24             ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-11-08 18:28             ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-11-07 23:19         ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-11-07 23:31           ` David Symonds
2007-11-08  0:09             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-08  0:14               ` David Symonds
2007-11-08  0:52                 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-11-08  0:10             ` [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: wt-status.h is also a lib header Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-08  0:11             ` Inconsistencies with git log Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-08  8:29               ` Peter Baumann
2007-11-08 13:16               ` David Symonds
2007-11-08 13:40                 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-08 21:21                 ` Alex Riesen
2007-11-08 21:23                   ` Alex Riesen
2007-11-08  0:12             ` [PATCH 2/2] git status: show relative paths when run in a subdirectory Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-08  0:53               ` David Symonds
2007-11-08  1:00                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-08  8:26               ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-09 15:30                 ` [PATCH REPLACEMENT for " Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-10 12:08                   ` Michel Marti
2007-11-10 14:10                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-08  9:19         ` Inconsistencies with git log Wincent Colaiuta
2007-11-10 22:51         ` Miles Bader [this message]
2007-11-07 23:00     ` David Symonds

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