Re: Tentative built-in "git show"

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Apr 15, 2006, 19:28 UTC
Message-ID: <7v3bgefxkp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604151203060.3701@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> This uses the "--no-walk" flag that I never actually implemented (but I'm 
> sure I mentioned it) to make "git show" be essentially the same thing as 
> "git whatchanged --no-walk".

I sometimes do "git show -4" myself, and wondered why defaulting to "-n 1"is insufficient, but if you do something like this to check the tip of each branch:

	git show master next pu

this may make sense.

Otherwise, it feels to me that (I haven't had caffeine nor nicotine yet, so I need to re-think this later) log, show and whatchanged are the same program in disguise with different set of defaults.

        log		--pretty
        show		--pretty -n1 -p
        whatchanged	--pretty -r

... which implies that some of them might become historical curiosity and no real reason to teach about each of them in the tutorial.