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Re: how to display file history?

From
Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Date
May 21, 2006, 17:35 UTC
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<20060521173549.GA23347@diku.dk>
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Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote Mon, May 15, 2006:
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> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 15 May 2006, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > People still don't seem to realize how flexible (and powerful) the git 
> > revision specifications are. It's not just limiting by path, all of these 
> > work on _all_ of the "history tools" (whether they be gitk, qgit, "git 
> > log", "git whatchanged" or your own home-cooked stuff):
> >
> > [examples]
> 
> But regardless of where we put it, it needs to be documented someplace
> besides in the email so you don't need to read the code to see that
> the option is there. 

I've put some of this on http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/RevisionSpecification that for now may serve as an introduction ...

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Jonas Fonseca
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Message 8 of 12 in “RE: how to display file history?”
  1. Brown, LenMay 15, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2006
  3. Eric W. BiedermanMay 15, 2006
  4. Linus TorvaldsMay 15, 2006
  5. Eric W. BiedermanMay 15, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsMay 15, 2006
  7. J. Bruce FieldsMay 15, 2006
  8. Jonas FonsecaMay 21, 2006
  9. Marco CostalbaMay 15, 2006
  10. Linus TorvaldsMay 15, 2006
  11. Marco CostalbaMay 15, 2006
  12. Linus TorvaldsMay 15, 2006

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