From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"Jean-Noël Avila" <jn.avila@free.fr>,
"Patrick Steinhardt" <ps@pks.im>, "Tian Yuchen" <cat@malon.dev>,
"Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble@gmail.com>,
"Johannes Sixt" <j6t@kdbg.org>,
"Chris Torek" <chris.torek@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] revision.c: implement --max-count-oldest
Date: Sat, 09 May 2026 20:01:15 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqjytcdeys.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2f71a00b035e25b971641b77a6fa7626f1e2459c.1777578676.git.mroik@delayed.space> (Mirko Faina's message of "Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:52:45 +0200")
Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space> writes:
> --max-count is a commit limiting option sets a maximum amount of commits
> to be shown. If a user wants to see only the first N commits of the
> history (the oldest commits) they'd have to combine --max-count with
> --skip. This is not very user-friendly.
> ...
> +test_expect_success 'log --max-count-oldest=3 --reverse --oneline' '
> + test_when_finished rm expect &&
> + git log --oneline | tail -n3 | tac >expect &&
> + git log --oneline --max-count-oldest=3 --reverse >actual &&
> + test_cmp expect actual
> +'
"tac" is not portable, and breaks macOS CI jobs.
https://github.com/git/git/actions/runs/25591146540/job/75128929633#step:4:2058
Wouldn't
git log --oneline --reverse | head -n3 >expect
be equivalent?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-09 11:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-18 16:47 [PATCH] revision.c: implement --reverse=before for walks Mirko Faina
2026-04-18 18:20 ` Tian Yuchen
2026-04-18 18:42 ` Mirko Faina
2026-04-18 18:51 ` Mirko Faina
2026-04-20 16:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-04-20 17:08 ` Tian Yuchen
2026-04-20 23:50 ` Mirko Faina
2026-04-19 12:06 ` Ben Knoble
2026-04-19 18:11 ` Mirko Faina
2026-04-19 19:12 ` D. Ben Knoble
2026-04-19 20:31 ` Mirko Faina
2026-04-20 0:21 ` Jeff King
2026-04-20 9:33 ` Mirko Faina
2026-04-20 10:30 ` Mirko Faina
2026-04-21 3:48 ` Jeff King
2026-04-22 18:24 ` D. Ben Knoble
2026-04-22 19:42 ` Mirko Faina
2026-04-20 0:04 ` Jeff King
2026-04-20 9:22 ` Mirko Faina
2026-04-22 0:28 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] " Mirko Faina
2026-04-22 0:30 ` Mirko Faina
2026-04-23 22:51 ` [PATCH v3 " Mirko Faina
2026-04-23 22:51 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] " Mirko Faina
2026-04-28 1:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-04-23 22:52 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] revision.c: reduce memory usage on reverse before Mirko Faina
2026-04-27 0:24 ` [PATCH v4 0/2] revision.c: implement --reverse=before for walks Mirko Faina
2026-04-27 0:24 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] " Mirko Faina
2026-04-27 6:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-04-27 7:33 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-04-27 12:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-04-27 13:58 ` Chris Torek
2026-04-27 16:48 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] revision.c: implement -b-reverse=before " Mirko Faina
2026-04-28 1:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-04-28 1:45 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] revision.c: implement --reverse=before " Junio C Hamano
2026-04-27 0:24 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] revision.c: reduce memory usage on reverse before Mirko Faina
2026-04-28 1:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-04-30 19:52 ` [PATCH v5] revision.c: implement --max-count-oldest Mirko Faina
2026-05-04 5:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-05-04 13:08 ` Mirko Faina
2026-05-05 21:54 ` [PATCH v6] " Mirko Faina
2026-05-06 6:45 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-05-06 12:54 ` Mirko Faina
2026-05-07 9:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-05-08 0:09 ` Mirko Faina
2026-05-09 12:46 ` Jean-Noël AVILA
2026-05-10 0:41 ` Mirko Faina
2026-05-09 21:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-05-10 0:48 ` Mirko Faina
2026-05-09 11:01 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-05-10 0:36 ` [PATCH v5] " Mirko Faina
2026-04-22 0:28 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] revision.c: implement --reverse=before for walks Mirko Faina
2026-04-22 22:44 ` Jeff King
2026-04-22 22:53 ` Mirko Faina
2026-04-22 0:28 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] revision.c: reduce memory usage on reverse before Mirko Faina
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