From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>,
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] log/ format-patch improvements
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:14:21 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100825084416.GC3280@kytes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282422531-29673-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>
Hi,
Ramkumar Ramachandra writes:
> The first patch implements Jakub's suggestion. Arguably, it's slightly
> complicated- it took me more than a few minutes to do the math with
> `nr` and `nr_i`.
>
> The second patch clarifies the meaning of the `-<n>` option. We should
> also probably force the mutual exclusivity of `-<n>` and <revision
> range> to avoid confusion.
>
> Additionally, thanks to Thomas for drilling into me the fundamental
> difference between -<n> and a revision range (on IRC).
>
> Ramkumar Ramachandra (2):
> git-format-patch: Print a diagnostic message when ignoring commits
> log: Improve description of '-<n>' option in documentation
>
> Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 2 +-
> Documentation/git-log.txt | 2 +-
> builtin/log.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> 3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
Do you see value in this patch or is it just unnecessary baggage?
-- Ram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-25 8:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-21 20:28 [PATCH 0/2] log/ format-patch improvements Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-08-21 20:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] git-format-patch: Print a diagnostic message when ignoring commits Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-08-21 20:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] log: Improve description of '-<n>' option in documentation Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-08-25 8:44 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra [this message]
2010-08-25 20:54 ` [PATCH 0/2] log/ format-patch improvements Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-26 5:34 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-08-26 5:46 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-26 7:06 ` Thomas Rast
2010-08-26 15:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-26 17:52 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-08-25 22:09 ` Junio C Hamano
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