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Re: GIT 0.99.9

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Oct 31, 2005, 03:08 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> I've several times been surprised to see people not realize that
> "git-whatchanged" takes a file list to limit the files it is interested 
> in. I also suspect people don't realize that you can limit it by time and 
> version and file list, all at the same time.
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> It would be good to make this more well-known, because a lot of people 
> probably end up using git not as developers, but just to follow what is 
> going on. And then the different limiters are some of the most important 
> parts (the date-one is likely the least important one, but limiting by 
> version and name is _very_ important).

I've somewhat updated git-rev-list documentation and tried to categorize the options into commit selectors and presentation modifiers. The documentation for commands you mentioned in your message all talk about them describing only frequently used options, and refer the user to rev-list documentation. I am not sure this would be enough.

One good thing to have would be to add a section to Tutorial. Currently we cover building a small project from scratch and have the readers graduate when they learn basic commit swapping, but we do not talk much about archaeology tools.

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Message 19 of 26 in “GIT 0.99.9”
  1. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2005
  2. A Large Angry SCMOct 30, 2005
  3. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2005
  4. A Large Angry SCMOct 30, 2005
  5. Johannes SchindelinOct 30, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsOct 30, 2005
  7. rev-list --sparse?Junio C Hamano, Oct 30, 2005
  8. Linus TorvaldsOct 30, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2005
  10. Wolfgang DenkOct 30, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2005
  12. Wolfgang DenkOct 30, 2005
  13. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2005
  14. Wolfgang DenkOct 30, 2005
  15. Ryan AndersonOct 30, 2005
  16. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2005
  17. H. Peter AnvinOct 30, 2005
  18. Linus TorvaldsOct 31, 2005
  19. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2005
  20. Linus TorvaldsOct 31, 2005
  21. Date-based limits (Was Re: GIT 0.99.9)Daniel Barkalow, Oct 31, 2005
  22. Junio C HamanoNov 1, 2005
  23. Daniel BarkalowNov 1, 2005
  24. rev-list: make --max- and --min-age a bit more usable.Junio C Hamano, Nov 2, 2005
  25. Linus TorvaldsNov 3, 2005
  26. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2005

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