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Re: git log: why are --full-diff and --pickaxe-all separate options?

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 24, 2010, 16:20 UTC
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<20100324162005.GA6626@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:52:13AM -0400, Jay Soffian wrote:
> But now I wonder why these are separate options. Is there any reason
> they shouldn't be unified?

I agree it is confusing, and the answer is "maybe". A long and gory explanation can be found here:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/34909

Read the later messages in the thread from Junio, too, as he goes back and forth a bit. I don't remember if anything happened after that, or why not.

-Peff
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