From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:38:13 -0400 Message-ID: <48B5BB35.8090606@pobox.com> References: <1219764860.4471.13.camel@gaara.bos.redhat.com> <1219766398.7107.87.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1f6632e50808260904t6bea0be5kc69342917e3db97@mail.gmail.com> <20080826162513.GR10544@machine.or.cz> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Willy Tarreau , Kristian H??gsberg , Matthias Kestenholz , Johannes Schindelin , users@kernel.org, Andi Kleen , Petr Baudis , Junio C Hamano , David Woodhouse , git@vger.kernel.org, "Shawn O. Pearce" To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 27 22:40:37 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 1KYRog-0004La-57 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:40:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752846AbYH0UjW (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:39:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752233AbYH0UjV (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:39:21 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:42383 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752148AbYH0UjV (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:39:21 -0400 Received: from cpe-069-134-153-115.nc.res.rr.com ([69.134.153.115] helo=core.yyz.us) by mail.dvmed.net with esmtpsa (Exim 4.69 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1KYRmQ-0006O1-Vz; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:38:16 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) In-Reply-To: <20080827202707.GA25233@coredump.intra.peff.net> X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.5 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 04:24:19PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> Indeed. >> >> Also, I type "git-diff-tree" quite a lot. >> >> My fingers find that >> >> git SPACE diff DASH tree >> >> is slower and less consistent than >> >> git DASH diff DASH tree >> >> The same with git-format-patch... We are going from "all dashes" to "a >> mix of space and dashes" which is increasing inconsistency. > > I have also found the SPACE-DASH slightly harder to type. However, I'm > curious: what are you doing frequently from the commandline with > git-diff-tree that is not just as easily done with git-diff? I use it to spit out a patch for a specific commit: git-diff-tree -p $COMMIT Though probably someone will now come along and tell me I'm am old-timer, and there is a shorter command that accomplishes the same thing :) Regards, Jeff