Re: svn versus git

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Dec 13, 2006, 23:45 UTC
Message-ID: <7vfybjbbsx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200612132200.41420.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> writes:

> ...  The output of git-ls-tree is not user friendly; it
> requires some understanding of git internals.

ls-tree is not Porcelain and has right to expose the internals by default. "git ls-tree --name-only" could be aliased to give "git ls" if you wanted to, but I wonder how often you would want to run:

	svn list -r538

and for what purpose?

I often find myself doing

	git diff -r --name-status v1.3.0 HEAD

to check if a file was already in v1.3.0 version, and I could do the same thing with

	git list v1.3.0 >/var/tmp/1
        git list HEAD >/var/tmp/2
        diff -u /var/tmp/[12]

but that certainly is awkward.

What do people use "svn list -r538" for and how often? In other words, when does it become necessary to get the full list of paths in an arbitrary revision?