Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins

From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Date: Aug 27, 2008, 21:05 UTC
Message-ID: <20080827210555.GF18340@parisc-linux.org>
In-Reply-To: <48B5BB35.8090606@pobox.com>

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 04:38:13PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

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> I use it to spit out a patch for a specific commit:
> 
> 	git-diff-tree -p $COMMIT
> 
> Though probably someone will now come along and tell me I'm am 
> old-timer, and there is a shorter command that accomplishes the same 
> thing :)

git-show -p $COMMIT ?

It also gives you the commit message, but that's not a hardship usually ...

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