Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] git-submodule summary: show commit summary

From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 11, 2008, 01:52 UTC
Message-ID: <46dff0320803101852j421646e6t5b8c71b656c72935@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1205171657-16216-2-git-send-email-pkufranky@gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:

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> This patch does the hard work to show submodule commit summary.
>
>  For a modified submodule, a series of commits will be shown with
>  the following command
>
>         git log --pretty='format:%m %s' --left-right \
>         --first-parent sha1_src...sha1_dst
>

It seems that --left-right makes no sense when combined with --pretty='format:%m %s'

I originally thought --left-right will make left-side commits always appear before or after right side commits, but that's not the case. Actually it seems that --left-right doesn't influence the commit order.

Is my understanding right?

>  where the src sha1 is from the given super project commit and the
>  dst sha1 is from the index or working tree (switched by --cached).
>

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Ping Yin