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Re: [RFC PATCH] Documentation: rev-list-options: clarify history simplification with paths

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 10, 2008, 21:58 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
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> On Sun, 10 Aug 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>> Personally I do not think --full-history without --parents is of much
>> usefulness (I'd let Linus or somebody else defend this usage, or make it
>> imply revs.rewrite_parents otherwise).  If you remove that case from your
>> set of experiments in the equation, do the rest of the results make sense?
>
> Oh, it's _very_ useful.
>
> The most common case is "git whatchanged". It's useful to find a commit 
> that did some change _without_ any graphical front-end. 
>
> And then the merges and parenthood are totally pointless - no human can 
> try to tie things together in their head _anyway_, so why show them? You 
> just want to find the change.

Oh, I was not talking about revs.print_parents part, but about revs.rewrite_parents part. What got Thomas puzzled about was exactly how the set of commits _shown_ are different with and without --parents, which sets both of these internal flags. Your "pointless" argument applies to "print_parents" part, but "rewrite_parents" affects the resulting set.

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Message 4 of 12 in “Documentation: rev-list-options: clarify history simplification with paths”
  1. Documentation: rev-list-options: clarify history simplification with pathsThomas Rast, Aug 10, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 10, 2008
  3. Linus TorvaldsAug 10, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 10, 2008
  5. Linus TorvaldsAug 10, 2008
  6. Thomas RastAug 10, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoAug 11, 2008
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 11, 2008
  9. Thomas RastAug 11, 2008
  10. 1/3 Documentation: rev-list-options: Fix a typoThomas Rast, Aug 11, 2008
  11. 2/3 Documentation: rev-list-options: Rewrite simplification descriptions for clarityThomas Rast, Aug 11, 2008
  12. 3/3 Documentation: rev-list-options: move --simplify-merges documentationThomas Rast, Aug 11, 2008

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