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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: gitk from subdirectory
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:33:46 -0700
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@pobox.com> writes:

> Since commit cdaee5db165ba8bae8d3b524950e61666fc36a84 (gitk:
> Improve handling of -- and ambiguous arguments), running gitk
> from a subdirectory limits the displayed history with the ...

FYI, I picked up your wish in the kernel list and have been
experimenting with this 5-liner whenever I refer to a commit in
the past:

        #!/bin/sh
        for commit
        do
                git show -s --pretty=oneline "$commit"
        done |
        sed -e 's/^[^ ]* /&(/' -e 's/$/)/'