From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [doc] User Manual Suggestion Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:25:31 -0400 Message-ID: <20090424232531.GA15136@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <200904240051.46233.johan@herland.net> <200904242230.13239.johan@herland.net> <20090424213848.GA14493@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Johan Herland , Michael Witten , git@vger.kernel.org, David Abrahams , "J. Bruce Fields" To: Daniel Barkalow X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 25 01:27:37 2009 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 1LxUnv-0001IJ-HC for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:27:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754621AbZDXXZm (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:25:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753566AbZDXXZm (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:25:42 -0400 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:40948 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753515AbZDXXZl (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:25:41 -0400 Received: (qmail 32539 invoked by uid 107); 24 Apr 2009 23:25:51 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:25:51 -0400 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:25:31 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 07:21:26PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > (And, actually, I think git has a few usability warts due to relying too > much on command line arguments being objects; it would be quite nice if > "git blame 1a2b3c:Makefile" worked despite this technically being > incoherent.) Yeah, I think another is that "git show master:file" will not do CRLF or other filters, and "git diff master:file other:file" will not respect diff settings. I think all of those could be solved by path lookup attaching a "here is a pathname I used to get to this object" string, which can then be accessed as appropriate. It is not all that different conceptually than what "git rev-list --objects" does. -Peff