Re: [PATCH v2] gitk: Use the --submodule option for displaying diffs when available

From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Nov 3, 2009, 11:32 UTC
Message-ID: <19184.5312.712632.894685@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <4AE82DBD.5070202@web.de>

Jens Lehmann writes:

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> Instead of just showing not-quite-helpful SHA-1 pairs in the diff display
> of a submodule gitk will display the first lines of the corresponding
> commit messages (similar to the output of 'git submodule summary') when
> the underlying git installation supports this. That makes it much easier
> to evaluate the changes, as it eliminates the need to start a gitk inside
> the submodule and use the superprojects hashes there to find out what the
> commits are about.
> 
> This patch applies to 'next' - which will be 1.6.6 or 1.7.0 when merged -
> and uses the new --submodule option of git diff when a version of 1.6.6 or
> higher is detected to achieve a more human readable output of submodule
> differences in gitk.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>

Thanks, applied.

Paul.