From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Hollomon Subject: Re: What should I use instead of git show? Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:49:19 -0500 Message-ID: <4416ADBF.9020906@comcast.net> References: <20060313144747.GA81092@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <200603131717.53416.astralstorm@o2.pl> <4415FFB8.3000001@comcast.net> <7vmzftq4r4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 14 12:49:10 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJ81P-0002ES-K9 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:49:03 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751806AbWCNLtA (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:49:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751850AbWCNLtA (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:49:00 -0500 Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net ([63.240.77.82]:8611 "EHLO sccrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751806AbWCNLs7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:48:59 -0500 Received: from [10.0.0.3] (c-69-249-27-188.hsd1.de.comcast.net[69.249.27.188]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2006031411485801200c77ice>; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:48:58 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060113) To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7vmzftq4r4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > Mark Hollomon writes: > >> I must be misunderstanding this: >> >> git whatchanged -p -1 HEAD >> >> in the current git tree results in nothing. only when I get to -5 does it show something. >> >> Is this expected? >> >>> git version >> git version 1.2.4.gea75 > > In this case what matterks is not the version of your git but > what that HEAD is. If it is a merge commit, whatchanged -p does > not show anything by default. Oh, I see. As a pass through to git-rev-list that makes sense. --max-count is really -max-commits-to-consider (or something like that). Is there a --max-commits-to-show? -- Mark Hollomon