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From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Subject: git-show vs git-log (or: git show vs git log)
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:46:34 +0200
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Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 08:51:24AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > '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)

git show --pretty=email

Best,
	Dominik