From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:36:21 GMT
Subject: Re: git-changes-script to show inter tree changes
Message-ID: <20050424123621.GB1507@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <1114306762.4805.3.camel@mulgrave>

Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 03:39:22AM CEST, I got a letter
where James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> told me that...
> On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 01:09 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > Linus isn't probably the right person to Cc on this, since this is
> > git-pasky thing.  Can you please post it as a signed-off patch?
> 
> I'm just offering it as one of the scripts I need to operate a git tree
> as a maintainer.  I don't have git-pasky installed, so I can't patch it
> against anything.  However, feel free to incorporate any pieces you
> need.

Aha,  I thought this is based on the current gitlog.sh, sorry.

> > I don't get what are you doing anyway. I don't know the "bk changes"
> > tool. Can't you just do
> > 
> > 	git log theothertree yourtree
> 
> No idea .. not used it.  However, how does this show the -L and -R diffs
> since there are two possible views of changes between trees?  It's
> primarily -L (changes in local) I need to keep the changes in my local
> tree.  -R (changes in remote) is just useful to show what changes I'm
> missing and might need to merge.

For -R, you'd probably do

	git log yourtree theothertree

(the range of changes between yourtree and theothertree, literally).

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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