From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:40:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Fix notes handling in rev-list
Message-ID: <7v1ukbys0n.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120717031727.GA20945@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> ... But whatever we call it, I think it is an
> improvement.

I didn't say it makes things worse in any way, did I?

I was reacting on the Subject: line because that will what I later
have to work from when reading shortlog, summarizing changes, etc.

> ... I don't think one more option is going to
> break the camel's back, but I wonder if "rev-list -h" could use some
> cleanup. E.g., maybe drop seldom used stuff like --bisect-vars, format
> similar options on a single line to save space, and add in some missing
> options.

Sounds good.  The manpage also needs some cleaning up, I would
think, to omit things that may happen to work (primarily because a
lot of code is shared with "log") but do not have to, for example.