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

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ABAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

Date

Aug 27, 2008, 21:13 UTC

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<20080827211326.GI11734@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi>

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<20080827210555.GF18340@parisc-linux.org>

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 03:05:56PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

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

I'm usually using
  git-show --pretty=oneline $COMMIT

BTW: I'd love to get a --pretty=noline

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