[BUG?] --boundary inconsistent with path limiting
- From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- Aug 4, 2016, 19:40 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20160804194043.z4nbosr4wpbzljdl@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Let's say I have a simple repo with three paths:
git init -q repo cd repo for i in a b c do echo content >$i.t git add $i.t git commit -qm $i && git tag $i done
If I ask for the top 2 commits, with the third as a boundary, I get the expected output:
$ git log --format='%m %s' --boundary a..c > c > b - a
If I limit the path to "b.t", I get:
$ git log --format='%m %s' --boundary a..c -- b.t > b - a
That makes sense to me. We omit "c" because it doesn't touch "b.t", and obviously include "b", which does. We _do_ include the boundary commit, even though it doesn't touch the path, which makes sense to me. It remains a boundary whether it touched the path or not, and without it, we get no boundary at all.
But now if I limit to "a.t", I get no output at all:
$ git log --format='%m %s' --boundary a..c -- a.t
whereas I would have expected "- a" to show the boundary.
Is this a bug, or are my expectations wrong?
-Peff