From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:18:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] revert: allow cherry-picking more than one commit
Message-ID: <201006030618.26838.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vwruh9fbj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thursday 03 June 2010 01:37:20 Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> > As a side effect, this unfortunately changes the meaning of
> > ‘git log --oneline --decorate --no-walk -5 --all’: instead of listing
> > five refs, after this patch that command would list the five most
> > recent commits.
> 
> It indeed is a change in behaviour, but in this case it is probably not
> such a big deal.
>
> The order "--all" (or "--branches" for that matter) lists refs doesn't
> have any logical relationship with the order of importance from the end
> user's point of view (they're just alphabetical), and asking for "first
> five" won't make much sense unless you are learning or testing the
> combinations of options, i.e. not in real life, I think.

I agree and I think Jonathan's patch would be nice to have.

Thanks both,
Christian.