From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:51:24 +0200 Message-ID: <20080828065124.GB16186@elte.hu> References: <20080826164526.GM26610@one.firstfloor.org> <20080826171012.GO10360@machine.or.cz> <20080826171255.GI26523@spearce.org> <20080826171623.GE5318@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20080826210631.GC3812@1wt.eu> <48B5B7F3.4080803@pobox.com> <20080827202707.GA25233@coredump.intra.peff.net> <48B5BB35.8090606@pobox.com> <48B5E822.1020901@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , Kristian H??gsberg , Matthias Kestenholz , Johannes Schindelin , users@kernel.org, Jeff King , Andi Kleen , Petr Baudis , Junio C Hamano , David Woodhouse , Willy Tarreau , git@vger.kernel.org, "Shawn O. Pearce" To: Jeff Garzik X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 28 08:54:18 2008 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 1KYbOb-0005FB-Cs for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:54:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752529AbYH1GxN (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:53:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752500AbYH1GxN (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:53:13 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:60921 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752064AbYH1GxM (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:53:12 -0400 Received: from elvis.elte.hu ([157.181.1.14]) by mx3.mail.elte.hu with esmtp (Exim) id 1KYbMN-0001Ir-UZ from ; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:52:06 +0200 Received: by elvis.elte.hu (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 811603E219B; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:51:25 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48B5E822.1020901@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Received-SPF: neutral (mx3: 157.181.1.14 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of elte.hu) client-ip=157.181.1.14; envelope-from=mingo@elte.hu; helo=elvis.elte.hu; X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org * Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Yeah, the "much nicer" obviously does mean "different". If you > > _rely_ on the fact that you don't get a pager (you just want to > > scroll youself), or you really don't want to see what the commit > > message was all about, then 'git diff-tree' is obviously "better". > > 'git show' is quite sufficient, as long as I can pipe its output into > patch(1) or write it to a foo.patch file, which appears to be the > case. the only time git show is not sufficient for me in practice, the following one is: git log --pretty=email -p -1 that's when i want to do precise import/export of patches from/to email. (but it's rare) Ingo