From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 19:02:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Very limited pathspec wildcards..
Message-ID: <7voe8ec08j.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508031038320.3258@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> Btw, I'm not sure this is a wonderful idea. I found it useful for doing
>
> 	git-whatchanged -p drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx*
>
> since I was interested in seeign if only that particular driver had had 
> changes. But it's hacky and pretty limited, so I throw this patch out more 
> as a "maybe others think it is a good idea" thing. 

Wouldn't something like this work equally well?

    #!/bin/sh
    git-whatchanged -r |
    sed -ne '
    /^:/s|aic7xxx/aic79xx|&|p
    /^:/d
    p' | git-diff-helper