From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] git-log.txt,rev-list-options.txt: -n/--max-count is commit limiting Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:59:22 -0800 Message-ID: <7vaah5e63p.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <4D75E92C.1090506@drmicha.warpmail.net> <4c0ad5a9af1d18e59a7e820349a531f220cbf776.1299572814.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason To: Michael J Gruber X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 08 20:59:39 2011 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 1Px34F-0001jg-4s for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:59:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756021Ab1CHT7d (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2011 14:59:33 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:32770 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752257Ab1CHT7c (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2011 14:59:32 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02D06351A; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 15:00:59 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=2vYEhW26yHPlCDDwJVizUimc3/Q=; b=nn1GGT krV0ytv1GVtDFvGomJBJS32u7pa2ERwqcMVO3EPhO19IeMhsUmTJVuDiuvw0/qzT RgxpMrGmR9mAmTR4KMpSgkuprV4Q1auz6YMcY2EjKHEmvVoG/gZUYQx5BMLyc6R/ ji2upjhPGirXww0RrP6lbKOQURm+p7XUTI2aA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=VdPNX36kmPx/KexweGRVKsaeCjMJK5Op LFswkXBg9HCuq+LojNjjag7JgRtko59OQEJUm5NGTl1HENc6C3e/5HUTJKExlQxC by+B3u7YyU6zqfmGKw8uUuRpD7yaZqz61yxkKgdlA1ewtjS8/WUZapBAtFu2ycCK pgsiQ6yaqko= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5CE63519; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 15:00:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9FAE83517; Tue, 8 Mar 2011 15:00:50 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <4c0ad5a9af1d18e59a7e820349a531f220cbf776.1299572814.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net> (Michael J. Gruber's message of "Tue, 8 Mar 2011 09:31:25 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: C6B1283E-49BE-11E0-8A82-E8AB60295C12-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Michael J Gruber writes: > diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt > index ff41784..48c1715 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git-log.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt > @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ OPTIONS > > -:: > Limits the number of commits to show. > + Note that this is a commit limiting option, see below. I wonder if we should be dropping this instead, as it appears later in the document anyway. > diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt > index 76add13..adcafa0 100644 > --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt > +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt > @@ -158,7 +158,8 @@ Commit Limiting > > Besides specifying a range of commits that should be listed using the > special notations explained in the description, additional commit > -limiting may be applied. > +limiting may be applied. Note that they are applied before commit > +ordering and formatting options, such as '--reverse'. This part is probably a good addition.