Re: git rev-list formatting

[Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>]

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> The rev-list man page lists all commands of that family, with
> rev-list being the bare bones version, and log and friends being
> more "high level". log and rev-list walk the revision tree, show
> does not. Most of that can be changed through options. whatchanged
> is a special family member...
>
> diff is from a completely different family (see git help diff or git
> help diffcore). It never walks, but compares revisions (or other things).
>
> The log family never compares things, but can show a patch, i.e. the
> difference to the ancestor(s).

(That's why I put `git diff' into the mix...)

Anyway -- thanks for the overview.  So IIUC, `rev-list' and `log' are
different in that the second can also format diffs -- ?


>> Also related, it looks like `--abbrev-commit' has no effect on `git
>> rev-list', but does on `git log', even through it's documented in the
>> former's man page.  So it looks like either there are more
>> (undocumented?) differences, or maybe that's also a bug?
>
> I consider this a bug. In fact, it has an effect, but not a visible one.
> You would have to use --abbrev=7 or such.
>
> A patch is upcoming.

Thanks.

And one more question -- is there some %-escape that shows the whole
contents?  Something like "%(contents)" in `for-each-ref'?  (Which has
a different set of escapes...)

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