From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:51:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins
Message-ID: <20080828065124.GB16186@elte.hu>
In-Reply-To: <48B5E822.1020901@pobox.com>


* Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:

> > Yeah, the "much nicer" obviously does mean "different". If you 
> > _rely_ on the fact that you don't get a pager (you just want to 
> > scroll youself), or you really don't want to see what the commit 
> > message was all about, then 'git diff-tree' is obviously "better".
> 
> 'git show' is quite sufficient, as long as I can pipe its output into 
> patch(1) or write it to a foo.patch file, which appears to be the 
> case.

the only time git show is not sufficient for me in practice, the 
following one is:

  git log --pretty=email -p -1

that's when i want to do precise import/export of patches from/to email. 
(but it's rare)

	Ingo