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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
	Frank Sorenson <frank@tuxrocks.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How do I...
Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 09:58:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1115456316.29495.57.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505061652240.2233@ppc970.osdl.org>

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 16:54 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> But trying to be clever while building this up is just crazy talk. When
> diff-tree prints out the changes, it has no way of knowing what the
> context around it was - it doesn't know about merges far away, and it
> _shouldn't_ know.

Isn't that what I suggested? Start with full history, mark the
'interesting' commits which touch the file(s) in question, then prune.

-- 
dwmw2


  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-07  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-06  9:49 How do I Frank Sorenson
2005-05-06  9:59 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2005-05-06 10:03   ` Thomas Glanzmann
2005-05-06 14:37 ` Dave Kleikamp
2005-05-06 16:39   ` Frank Sorenson
2005-05-06 17:58     ` Dave Kleikamp
2005-05-06 19:07       ` Frank Sorenson
2005-05-06 16:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-06 16:35   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-05-06 16:47     ` Frank Sorenson
2005-05-06 17:31       ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-05-06 18:56         ` Frank Sorenson
2005-05-06 17:09     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-06 18:39       ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-06 18:59         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-06 19:10           ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-06 22:57             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-06 23:20               ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-06 23:54                 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-07  8:58                   ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2005-05-06 19:35           ` Thomas Kolejka
2005-05-06 16:36   ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-07  0:45     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-05-06 18:58 ` Linus Torvalds

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