From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 03:01:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable tree (directory) history display
Message-ID: <7v3bdmf2p6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060701024309.63001.qmail@web31805.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> writes:

> 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.