From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 17:18:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] pretty.c: add %O format specifier to format_commit_one()
Message-ID: <7vsk6b5yms.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1272711401-29005-1-git-send-email-ash@koowaldah.org>

Alexander Shishkin <ash@koowaldah.org> writes:

> This specifier represents the number of each commit in the output
> stream.

I don't like this.  What does such a number _mean_ in a non-linear
history?

Also the next person who sees this will inevitably ask for %TOTAL to so
that the output can say [N/M], but that would mean the list has to be
limited and we cannot stream the output anymore.