From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: git log: why are --full-diff and --pickaxe-all separate options? Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:20:06 -0400 Message-ID: <20100324162005.GA6626@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <76718491003240852m2a2c12afjca2c71f6c78b2047@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git To: Jay Soffian X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 24 17:20:19 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NuTJZ-0007CI-TT for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:20:18 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753732Ab0CXQUK (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:20:10 -0400 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:49878 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752510Ab0CXQUJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:20:09 -0400 Received: (qmail 4109 invoked by uid 107); 24 Mar 2010 16:20:39 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with ESMTPA; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:20:39 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:20:06 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <76718491003240852m2a2c12afjca2c71f6c78b2047@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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