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Re: Log message printout cleanups

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Apr 18, 2006, 00:37 UTC
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 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> I realize that Dscho has been looking at some much "fancier" merge 
> diffstats, but I really do believe that the "what got merged" difference 
> to the original branch (ie parent 1) is what you want in practice.

These days I find myself running "git log --stat" more often than "git whatchanged"; it looks so much nicer ;-).

Thanks for a job well done.
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Message 11 of 18 in “Fixes for option parsing”
  1. Linus TorvaldsApr 16, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2006
  3. Linus TorvaldsApr 17, 2006
  4. Linus TorvaldsApr 17, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsApr 17, 2006
  7. Log message printout cleanupsLinus Torvalds, Apr 17, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2006
  9. Linus TorvaldsApr 17, 2006
  10. Junio C HamanoApr 18, 2006
  11. Junio C HamanoApr 18, 2006
  12. Linus TorvaldsApr 18, 2006
  13. Junio C HamanoApr 18, 2006
  14. Linus TorvaldsApr 18, 2006
  15. Linus TorvaldsApr 18, 2006
  16. Junio C HamanoApr 18, 2006
  17. diff --stat: make sure to set recursive.Junio C Hamano, Apr 18, 2006
  18. Linus TorvaldsApr 18, 2006

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