From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:25:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Make 'git show' more useful
Message-ID: <4A5C24BE.4090804@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0907140324140.3155@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>


>> The actual "--no-walk" flag was then added over a year later by Dsco, in
>> commit 8e64006eee ("Teach revision machinery about --no-walk").
>>
>> Doing a "git log -p -S--no-walk", I have to admit that I don't find a
>> single actual _use_ of --no-walk.
>
> Actually, I remember very precisely why I introduced it.  The difference
> between "git log --no-walk a b c" and "git show a b c" is that "git log"
> sorts the commits by commit time, which is pretty important in my case.

Very nice.  Can you add a test for that?

(OTOH do-walk seems to be superseded by Linus's patch).

Paolo