From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:46:34 GMT
Subject: git-show vs git-log (or: git show vs git log)
Message-ID: <20080828074634.GA2862@isilmar.linta.de>
In-Reply-To: <20080828065124.GB16186@elte.hu>

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 08:51:24AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > '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)

git show --pretty=email

Best,
	Dominik