From: Paul Mackerras Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:32:16 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gitk: Use the --submodule option for displaying diffs when available Message-ID: <19184.5312.712632.894685@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <4AE82DBD.5070202@web.de> Jens Lehmann writes: > 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 Thanks, applied. Paul.