From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:00:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [q] git-diff --reverse 7def2be1..7def2be1^
Message-ID: <20080620100038.GB10704@elte.hu>
In-Reply-To: <7v3an8o5mm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>


* Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> 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