From: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 03:10:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable tree (directory) history display
Message-ID: <20060701031004.29384.qmail@web31801.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v3bdmf2p6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

--- Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > I took a comparative look with and without "--full-history",
> > and FWIW, enabling full history just clobbers the output with a lot
> > of unnecessary information.  I.e. it shows merges which do not have
> > direct consequence or change to the files in the path spec specified
> > after the "--".
> >...
> > FWIW, I think that the original intention (had there been a choice)
> > would've been to show only most relevant history, i.e. changes
> > directly related to paths and files after the "--".
> 
> Sounds sane.  Maybe we should clearly explain this behaviour
> change in the commit log and claim it as an improvement.  We
> might even want to do --no-merges if we go that route.

I agree.  Indeed, this would definitely be an improvement.

   Luben