From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Burton Subject: Re: RFC: Change whatchanged to report changes from merges by default? Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:21:09 +0000 Organization: Order N Ltd. Message-ID: <20081220202109.336d0a5e@crow> References: <20081220104232.5ff1b7c0@crow> <7vvdtewqvy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Dec 20 21:22:54 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LE8LS-00056A-Ff for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:22:42 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753127AbYLTUVY (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:21:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753077AbYLTUVY (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:21:24 -0500 Received: from c2bthomr09.btconnect.com ([213.123.20.127]:15927 "EHLO c2bthomr09.btconnect.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752775AbYLTUVX (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:21:23 -0500 Received: from crow.ordern.com (host86-128-197-104.range86-128.btcentralplus.com [86.128.197.104]) by c2bthomr09.btconnect.com with ESMTP id CHL00952; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:21:09 GMT Received: from crow (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by crow.ordern.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67BDF190CFB; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:21:09 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <7vvdtewqvy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.6.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=c2bthomr09.btconnect.com X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A090206.494D53BD.01C5,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=86.128.197.104, so=2007-10-30 19:00:17, dmn=5.7.1/2008-09-02 X-Junkmail-IWF: false Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:09:05 -0800 Junio C Hamano wrote: > IOW, I consider "whatchanged" a command that is kept only for old timers' > sake. There is no reason to promote it, but there is no reason to > deprecate it, either. Which means the answer to this question... > > > Would it not make more sense to have git whatchanged show the changes > > introduced by merges by default and then people can use the (already > > supported) --no-merges option to suppress that behaviour? > > ... is a NO spelled in capital letters. OK (spelled in capital letters), I won't submit the patch. Cheers, Mark