From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Inconsistencies with git log Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:41:04 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <9e4733910711071415i1729e277u6be19b72cd682a85@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910711071445p7cfb6cffx83adb1d84d6bf9d8@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910711071503va92a653s25fd978989d5917d@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910711071529m604f3b12v29b3a040074ea4e@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910711071609t3e5412f1mf02e501b2d820bb3@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910711090920m6b0b7704x7c5a3849215f385c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 09 18:42:11 2007 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 1IqXrl-0004OA-Oq for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:42:02 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754611AbXKIRlr (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:41:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754553AbXKIRlr (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:41:47 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:44046 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754312AbXKIRlq (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:41:46 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IqXrL-0005rI-VA for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:41:36 +0000 Received: from abvp178.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl ([83.8.213.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:41:35 +0000 Received: from jnareb by abvp178.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:41:35 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: abvp178.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl Mail-Copies-To: Jakub Narebski User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jon Smirl wrote: > The summary of this is that new users do not expect "git log" to give > them the whole log when the command is executed in a subdirectory. > This causes a training burden because of the unexpected behavior. They > try 'git log' and then I have to tell them to use "git log ." That's too bad, that they have to unlearn bad expectations. Having "git log" _always_ meaning whole history is very useful. You can always do "git log ." (two characters more); how do you propose to request full history from within subdirectory if by default "git log" output would limit history to current directory only? -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git