Re: Finding file revisions

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 07:45 -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 April 2005 18:19, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Chris Mason wrote:
> > > So, new prog attached.  New usage:
> > >
> > > file-changes [-c commit_id] [-s commit_id] file ...
> > >
> > > -c is the commit where you want to start searching
> > > -s is the commit where you want to stop searching
> >
> > Your script will do some funky stuff, because you incorrectly think that
> > the rev-list is sorted linearly. It's not. It's sorted in a rough
> > chronological order, but you really can't do the "last" vs "cur" thing
> > that you do, because two commits after each other in the rev-list listing
> > may well be from two totally different branches, so when you compare one
> > tree against the other, you're really doing something pretty nonsensical.
> 
> One more rev that should work as you suggested Here's the example output 
> from a cogito changeset with merges.  I print the diff-tree lines once for each 
> matching parent and then print the commit once.  It's very primitive, but
> hopefully some day someone will make a gui with happy clicky buttons
> for changesets and filerevs.

Not really happy clicky, but ... :)

Look at the (history) link:
  http://ehlo.org/~kay/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fb3b4ebc0be618dbcc2326482a83c920d51af7de

Kay