From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Raible Subject: Re: Does CVS has a easy way to compare file with its previous version? Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:04:45 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1e56aa11-735a-47f7-a273-5b6bf611f528@n11g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <4A4A9FA5.7000009@gnu.org> 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 Thu Jul 02 20:05:15 2009 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 1MMQel-0002Jn-6v for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:05:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751993AbZGBSFB (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:05:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751707AbZGBSFA (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:05:00 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:55836 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751098AbZGBSE7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:04:59 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MMQea-0002fQ-PS for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:05:01 +0000 Received: from adsl-64-175-41-97.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net ([64.175.41.97]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:05:00 +0000 Received: from raible by adsl-64-175-41-97.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:05:00 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 64.175.41.97 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.33 Safari/530.5) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds linux-foundation.org> writes: > On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > > I think he wants something more like > > > > git diff `git log -2 --pretty=format:%h` -- > > That's a rather difficult way of saying > > git log --no-merges -p -1 > > which seems much simpler. Sure, you'll get the commit message too, but > that just sounds like gravy to me (you can use "--pretty=oneline" or > something to make it denser). > > Linus Isn't the first one incorrect because needs to be inside the backticks? git diff `git log -2 --pretty=format:%h ` -- And isn't the replacement incorrect also (the diffs are backwards)? git log --no-merges -p -R -1 - Eric