From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:18:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 3/3] builtin/show.c: do not prune by pathspec
Message-ID: <4D9454D9.6060406@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <3bee7fb376e2fb498c9634ab2ff5506f8c74a7bc.1301562936.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Am 3/31/2011 11:17, schrieb Michael J Gruber:
> By design, "git show commit -- path" is not "git show commit:path", and
> there is no reason to change that. But "git show commit -- path" simply
> returns nothing at all "most of the time" because it prunes by pathspec
> even though it does not walk commits. This is pretty useless.
> 
> So, turn off pruning (but keep diff limiting of course) so that "git
> show commit -- path" shows the commit message and the diff that the
> commit introduces to path (filtered by path); only the diff will be
> empty "most of the time".

How does this interfere with git show --walk commit -- path? Will it now
show all commits instead of just those that changed path?

-- Hannes