From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:52:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] post-receive-email: defend against non UTF-8 i18n.logoutputencoding setting
Message-ID: <20120308135237.GA14918@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <20120308135030.GB30602@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

> If you are using "-s" to suppress diff output, why are you using
> diff-tree? Wouldn't "rev-list -1" (or "rev-list --no-walk") work equally
> well and be a little more obvious?

Just a habit --- some part of me is wired to think "diff-tree is the
command to show a commit".  Maybe rev-list didn't support --pretty in
olden days?