Re: gitk from subdirectory

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> I am wondering if this was intended behaviour change.  I think
> it makes sense to want an easy way to say "what changed stuff in
> the directory I am in?" because presumably you are there because
> you are interested in stuff in there.  But if you hard code "--"
> it is not easy to disable that and get the global log.

Hmm. My reaction to this would be that it was a mistake to have a 
difference between 

	git log --

and

	git log

and that we should instead fix this at the argument parsing level. 

And then anybody who depended on the old "--" behaviour can just add a "." 
at the end.

That way there are no special cases.

I realize that the "--" behaviour of git log was intentional, but seeing 
what it results in I think the intention was good, but stupid.

		Linus