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Re: [q] git-diff --reverse 7def2be1..7def2be1^

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IMIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date
Jun 20, 2008, 10:00 UTC
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* Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> By the way, not linking --reverse (traverse the history normally and 
> then show the commits in the reverse order than usual) to -R (show 
> diff in the opposite way while showing the change each commit 
> introduces) allows you to even say "log --reverse -R", which did not 
> come from a conscious design, but being able to say this _is_ a 
> conscious design:
> 
> 	$ git fetch j6t
> 	$ git log --reverse -p ..j6t/for-junio
> 
> When I review a branch somebody else offers me, I may want to view the 
> commits on them in reverse order (so that they build a bit by bit on 
> top of my tree), but I _certainly_ do not want to view the patch in 
> reverse!

yes, i too do that occasionally (and some of my export/import scripts rely on it in fact), and i was not suggesting to change any existing functionality anyway.

	Ingo
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  1. Ingo MolnarJun 20, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 20, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoJun 20, 2008
  4. Ingo MolnarJun 20, 2008
  5. Ingo MolnarJun 20, 2008
  6. Jakub NarebskiJun 20, 2008
  7. Mikael MagnussonJun 20, 2008
  8. Jakub NarebskiJun 20, 2008
  9. Ingo MolnarJun 20, 2008
  10. Andreas EricssonJun 22, 2008
  11. Dmitry PotapovJul 6, 2008
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 6, 2008
  13. Dmitry PotapovJul 6, 2008
  14. Junio C HamanoJul 6, 2008
  15. Dmitry PotapovJul 7, 2008
  16. Matthieu MoyJun 20, 2008
  17. Ingo MolnarJun 20, 2008
  18. Jakub NarebskiJun 20, 2008
  19. Ingo MolnarJun 26, 2008
  20. Jakub NarebskiJun 26, 2008
  21. Ingo MolnarJun 26, 2008
  22. Nicolas PitreJun 26, 2008
  23. Junio C HamanoJun 28, 2008
  24. Mikael MagnussonJun 20, 2008
  25. Ingo MolnarJun 20, 2008

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