From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mojca Miklavec Subject: inconsistent logs when displayed on screen / piped to a file Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:25:42 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 30 14:25:56 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Svp2l-0000lZ-Sc for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:25:52 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753500Ab2G3MZn (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:25:43 -0400 Received: from mail-qc0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:60006 "EHLO mail-qc0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752736Ab2G3MZm (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:25:42 -0400 Received: by qcro28 with SMTP id o28so2845681qcr.19 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 05:25:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=rzEup6hN1QfVmfFf7gqq+Z0vGYViMK1LxCgZya0Ts3g=; b=Ra6RSFHsRHujajVpNy3AqQQxg+cJ89fZkC6GOoxRCy4g6UNDeMtlJJDPNMqyxilVDh 089qgKrp5leQkuyY8BuVVAKjHNnZFoGJ0m8xk4KKh2Pt/zGguw1GsFHlQY9b28QkpxeX pAKB3dMer11Pd9tDiNEHqiWNX7O+wXzx8D3F9pyCcM9VuTi9uVOD6m0aPJ0+ei68oOoi EL61WxUFeviymO9O6JitomnmtrUNn0knDT6+64YMCLYX++qDU6zhMmiryzxJKGMl16Yr tU2ETxF8mjgD4PPAVQyiQNH+kI2velF9sVscu/n/tNxvhqKwmcPIpjhMca7hoktIQW7U 17iw== Received: by 10.224.203.197 with SMTP id fj5mr22571196qab.98.1343651142117; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 05:25:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.242.131 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 05:25:42 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello, I'm trying to use "git log" to generate ChangeLog for a project recently migrated from CVS. The problem is that git log --summary --stat --no-merges --date=short --decorate=short behaves differently when the result is displayed on screen and when it is piped to a file. For example, running the commands: a) git log --summary --stat --no-merges --date=short --decorate=short e9f65aa976 b) git log --summary --stat --no-merges --date=short --decorate=short e9f65aa976 > /tmp/log.txt would result in two different outputs: a) aquaterm/Docs/gptProtocol.rtf | 316 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ aquaterm/English.lproj/GPTInfoWindow.nib/classes.nib | 12 + aquaterm/English.lproj/GPTInfoWindow.nib/info.nib | 12 + aquaterm/English.lproj/GPTInfoWindow.nib/objects.nib | Bin 0 -> 1010 bytes aquaterm/English.lproj/GPTInfoWindow~.nib/classes.nib | 4 + aquaterm/English.lproj/GPTInfoWindow~.nib/info.nib | 12 + aquaterm/English.lproj/GPTInfoWindow~.nib/objects.nib | Bin 0 -> 1232 bytes aquaterm/English.lproj/GPTWindow.nib/classes.nib | 13 ++ aquaterm/English.lproj/GPTWindow.nib/info.nib | 12 + b) aquaterm/Docs/gptProtocol.rtf | 316 ++++++ .../English.lproj/GPTInfoWindow.nib/classes.nib | 12 + aquaterm/English.lproj/GPTInfoWindow.nib/info.nib | 12 + .../English.lproj/GPTInfoWindow.nib/objects.nib | Bin 0 -> 1010 bytes .../English.lproj/GPTInfoWindow~.nib/classes.nib | 4 + aquaterm/English.lproj/GPTInfoWindow~.nib/info.nib | 12 + .../English.lproj/GPTInfoWindow~.nib/objects.nib | Bin 0 -> 1232 bytes aquaterm/English.lproj/GPTWindow.nib/classes.nib | 13 + aquaterm/English.lproj/GPTWindow.nib/info.nib | 12 + The project where the results could be easily reproduced is the following: https://github.com/AquaTerm/AquaTerm git://github.com/AquaTerm/AquaTerm.git It is possible that I screwed up something when importing the project from CVS. In that case I would be happy if someone could point me out what exactly I did wrong, and I can still rewrite the history before the first release of the project using git. But in any case I find it weird that I get two different outputs. I would be grateful for any clues or hints about what goes wrong. Mojca