From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:58:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 3/3] builtin/show.c: do not prune by pathspec
Message-ID: <4D945E3E.9010006@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <4D9454D9.6060406@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt venit, vidit, dixit 31.03.2011 12:18:
> 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?

Hmpft,

git show --walk origin/master
fatal: unrecognized argument: --walk

No, that is without my patch ;)

In other words: "ENOPARSEOPTS in revision.c", there is no "--walk".

Michael