From: Mark Hollomon <markhollomon@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:49:19 GMT
Subject: Re: What should I use instead of git show?
Message-ID: <4416ADBF.9020906@comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vmzftq4r4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Mark Hollomon <markhollomon@comcast.net> writes:
> 
>> I must be misunderstanding this:
>>
>> 	git whatchanged -p -1 HEAD
>>
>> in the current git tree results in nothing. only when I get to -5 does it show something.
>>
>> Is this expected?
>>
>>> git version
>> git version 1.2.4.gea75
> 
> In this case what matterks is not the version of your git but
> what that HEAD is.  If it is a merge commit, whatchanged -p does
> not show anything by default.

Oh, I see. As a pass through to git-rev-list that makes sense. --max-count is really 
-max-commits-to-consider (or something like that).

Is there a --max-commits-to-show?

-- 
Mark Hollomon