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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git log: why are --full-diff and --pickaxe-all separate options?
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:20:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100324162005.GA6626@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76718491003240852m2a2c12afjca2c71f6c78b2047@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:52:13AM -0400, Jay Soffian wrote:

> But now I wonder why these are separate options. Is there any reason
> they shouldn't be unified?

I agree it is confusing, and the answer is "maybe". A long and gory
explanation can be found here:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/34909

Read the later messages in the thread from Junio, too, as he goes back
and forth a bit. I don't remember if anything happened after that, or
why not.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-24 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-24 15:52 git log: why are --full-diff and --pickaxe-all separate options? Jay Soffian
2010-03-24 16:20 ` Jeff King [this message]
2010-03-24 17:19 ` Junio C Hamano

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