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Re: [PATCH 3/4] --decorate now decorates ancestors, too

From
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date
Jul 11, 2007, 02:27 UTC
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<20070711022714.GI27033@thunk.org>
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0707110229320.4047@racer.site>
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 02:29:49AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> 
> The option --decorate changed default behavior: Earlier, it decorated
> commits pointed to by any ref.  The new behavior is this: decorate the
> with the given refs and its ancestors, i.e.
> 
> 	git log --decorate next master
> 
> will show "next", "next^", "next~2", ..., "master", "master^", ...
> in parenthesis after the commit name.

I'm wondering how useful the default is. The arguments get used for two things; both for git-log to decide what revisions to display, and which refs to decorate, right? I'm not sure that overloading is such a great idea.

Also, I note that "git log --decorate" does nothing at all. Maybe it would be better to keep the default to be "any-ref" instead of "given"?

		      	 	   	    - Ted
Previous: Johannes SchindelinNext: Junio C Hamano
Message 7 of 11 in “Make --decorate more useful”
  1. 0/4 Make --decorate more usefulJohannes Schindelin, Jul 11, 2007
  2. 1/4 Move add_name_decoration() and add_ref_decoration() to commit.[ch]Johannes Schindelin, Jul 11, 2007
  3. 2/4 Move the --decorate option from builtin-log.c to revision.c.Johannes Schindelin, Jul 11, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 12, 2007
  5. Johannes SchindelinJul 13, 2007
  6. 3/4 --decorate now decorates ancestors, tooJohannes Schindelin, Jul 11, 2007
  7. Theodore TsoJul 11, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 12, 2007
  9. Johannes SchindelinJul 14, 2007
  10. Johannes SchindelinJul 21, 2007
  11. 4/4 --decorate: prefer shorter namesJohannes Schindelin, Jul 11, 2007

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