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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Josh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Config variables and scripting // was Re: [RFC/PATCH] log: add log.firstparent option
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 10:37:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqoaj2pygu.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150723051445.GA24029@peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 22 Jul 2015 22:14:45 -0700")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 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 a solution
> along the lines of making the plumbing cover more cases, rather than
> trying to make the porcelain behave in a script.

Very well said.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-23 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-23  1:23 [RFC/PATCH] log: add log.firstparent option Jeff King
2015-07-23  4:40 ` Config variables and scripting // was " David Aguilar
2015-07-23  5:14   ` Jeff King
2015-07-23  5:48     ` Jeff King
2015-07-23  6:32       ` Jacob Keller
2015-07-23  6:53         ` Jeff King
2015-07-23  6:55           ` Jacob Keller
2015-07-23  9:53             ` Michael J Gruber
2015-07-23 17:35               ` Jeff King
2015-07-23 17:37     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-07-23 22:14 ` Stefan Beller
2015-07-24  7:40   ` Jeff King
2015-07-24  7:46     ` Jacob Keller
2015-07-24  8:17       ` Jeff King
2015-07-24 15:31     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-25  1:36       ` Jeff King
2015-07-25  1:47         ` Jeff King
2015-07-25 17:18           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-27  4:43             ` Jeff King
2015-07-23 22:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-24  6:07   ` Jacob Keller
2015-07-24  7:34     ` Jeff King
2015-07-24  7:44       ` Jacob Keller
2015-07-24 15:04       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-24 18:13         ` Jeff King
2015-07-24  7:21   ` Jeff King
2015-07-24  7:23   ` Jeff King
2015-07-24 15:07     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-25  2:05       ` Jeff King
2015-07-25 17:41         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-25 22:41           ` Jacob Keller
2015-07-27  4:55           ` Jeff King

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