From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the next CLI revamp Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:08:06 -0700 Message-ID: <7v1vxu4q49.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1225338485-11046-1-git-send-email-sam@vilain.net> <20081030143918.GB14744@mit.edu> <20081030144321.GF24098@artemis.corp> <20081030163056.GA8899@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Pierre Habouzit , Sam Vilain , git@vger.kernel.org, Sam Vilain To: Theodore Tso X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Nov 02 07:09:41 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1KwW9b-0005VB-17 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:09:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752079AbYKBGIZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Nov 2008 01:08:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752058AbYKBGIZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Nov 2008 01:08:25 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:34519 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752015AbYKBGIY (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Nov 2008 01:08:24 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8497677B23; Sun, 2 Nov 2008 01:08:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-211.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 27D0777B22; Sun, 2 Nov 2008 01:08:13 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20081030163056.GA8899@mit.edu> (Theodore Tso's message of "Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:30:56 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: A7DC2318-A8A4-11DD-9A70-9CEDC82D7133-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Theodore Tso writes: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:43:21PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >> >> git format-patch origin/next.. works already. I'm used to the asymetric >> git format-patch origin/next syntax, and I would be sorry if it >> disappeared though, and I see no really good reason to get rid of it. > > The reason why it annoys me is because I often what to cherry-pick a > single patch to send to someone, and so while "git show 332d2e78" > shows me the patch, but if I want to use git-send-email for that > particular patch, "git format-patch 332d2e78" doesn't DTRT. I have to > type "git format-patch 332d2e78^..332d2e78" instead. > ... > (And I get annoyed when I want to run git format-patch on a single > patch not at the tip of the tree; but if it's just me, I can write a > "git format-single-patch" wrapper script to get around it.) Huh? I am so used to "git format-patch -1 HEAD" (or "332d2e78") that I am very surprised.