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Re: [PATCH] Enable tree (directory) history display

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jul 1, 2006, 03:01 UTC
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Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> writes:
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> I took a comparative look with and without "--full-history",
> and FWIW, enabling full history just clobbers the output with a lot
> of unnecessary information.  I.e. it shows merges which do not have
> direct consequence or change to the files in the path spec specified
> after the "--".
>...
> FWIW, I think that the original intention (had there been a choice)
> would've been to show only most relevant history, i.e. changes
> directly related to paths and files after the "--".

Sounds sane. Maybe we should clearly explain this behaviour change in the commit log and claim it as an improvement. We might even want to do --no-merges if we go that route.

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