From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aghiles Subject: Re: potential improvement to 'git log' with a range Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:31:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Sverre Rabbelier , git list To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Apr 11 22:32:23 2010 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 1O13pN-0002tO-Jw for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:32:21 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752863Ab0DKUcR convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:32:17 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:58501 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752834Ab0DKUcQ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:32:16 -0400 Received: by wyb39 with SMTP id 39so1052293wyb.19 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:32:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:received:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=6DPilqWXCNeNr4iAcVx5YiEHhnnntS3HYD7diCE80TU=; b=lQmwO+0H9/Nbg6m1FG6ab71F5RKoUFi/c2km+quFO73HZaJtZtzyOlIuiHCO1+oqH5 aRLR+IanQC8tfEU5BLxrm3bI1VfLIGCrF3wrZIpRS/2B20Fk3unOiNKkkyfdNd82LCTd OvNqzfM5CtjlfordEsVxlvvVcQ54oAUDlssqg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Tt/whFyAxDGNbXk8Mpg6fwFIZ9ac8WFKHYgnxIJA1kusIueeyyZ5PC0k6yQhj1603O QLb16x3oGCBPECinYMORNLCdbFDQ7A7ljT8atu3VRgSd/Df/PFJQ2dvBiXRn9aKWPpV4 uXKRVure8kUeuYZJTb1/V0HYDr2qcwj6lb+WU= Received: by 10.216.157.212 with HTTP; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:31:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Received: by 10.216.165.5 with SMTP id d5mr1674667wel.143.1271017931122; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:32:11 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Apr 9, 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Well, technically ".." means two different things > > =A0- for "set operations" (ie "git log" and friends) it's the "relati= ve > =A0 complement" of two sets (or "'reachable from A' \ 'reachable from= B'"). > > =A0- for "edge operations" (ie "git diff" and friends) it's just two > =A0 end-points (aka "range"). A diff doesn't work on sets, it only wo= rks on > =A0 the two endpoints. OK. > Most SCM's really talk about "ranges". Once you think in those terms, > complex history doesn't work. Git very fundamentally is much about se= t > theory, and "ranges" is a bad word to use. I see how ranges are not powerful enough for complex history. It is jus= t that for me (and maybe for some others), the ".." sign has a strong association with "range". Thank you very much for the explanation, -- aghiles