From: Petr Baudis Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:37:33 GMT Subject: Re: git-rev-list: add "--dense" flag Message-ID: <20051022003733.GA8351@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: Dear diary, on Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 01:40:54AM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds told me that... > When we use a path filter to git-rev-list, the new "--dense" flag asks > git-rev-list to compress the history so that it _only_ contains commits > that change files in the path filter. It also rewrites the parent > information so that tools like "gitk" will see the result as a dense > history tree. There is no documentation for the --dense flag and it is even missing from the usage string. But my main concern is - will it be possible to do the rename detection here as well? Using --dense instead of explicit diff-tree calls in cg-log would be nice optimization, but I was about to add support for optional following of renames for cg-log . That's really pretty useful to have, every time I hit the Junio's big scripts rename I keep repeating that to myself. ;-) Now when core GIT got the comfort of per-file history, I only hope that it will start to annoy you as well. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.