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Re: [PATCH] Docs gitk: Explicitly mention -d, --date-order option

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CCClifford Caoile <piyo@users.sourceforge.net>
Date
Apr 19, 2008, 07:35 UTC
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Junio C Hamano:
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Clifford Caoile" <piyo@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>  > Git Mailing List, Git Maintainer:
>  Heh, my name is not "Git Maintainer" ;-)
Sorry about that. Just adding another layer of indirection. >:-]
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>  > Regarding the documentation patch "[PATCH] Docs gitk: Explicitly
>  > mention -d, --date-order option" [1] (2008-04-12), it has not been
>  > accepted. Is there problem with this patch?
>  >
>  > References:
>  > [1] http://marc.info/?l=git&m=120799377618677&w=2
>
>  There isn't anything _wrong_ with the patch per se, but the current
>  documentation refers you to rev-list page and limits itself to the most
>  often used options.
>
>  I was waiting to see that many people jumping up and down saying that the
>  omission of --date-order from the "most often used" set was a grave bug
>  before applying it.  It hasn't happened.

The whole motivation for adding this documentation is to show that gitk has the same sorting function as git-browser. I only learned of this capability through the irc channel.

As a git newbie, it wasn't obvious to me that "--date-order" was an available option. It has become my usual parameter when launching gitk on branch/merge heavy repos. Besides, and more importantly, the equivalent "-d" is a gitk only parameter that should probably be documented as well. I had to read the gitk tcl source for that one. ;-)

Best regards, Clifford Caoile

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  1. Clifford CaoileApr 18, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 19, 2008
  3. Raimund BauerApr 19, 2008
  4. Clifford CaoileApr 19, 2008
  5. Robert PollakApr 1, 2011

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