From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:59:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] "log --stdin" updates
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In-Reply-To: <20091120144030.GB5419@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 03:25:12AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> These three come on top of 61ab67a (Teach --stdin option to "log" family,
>> 2009-11-03), which gave "--stdin" to the log family of commands (e.g. log,
>> rev-list).  The earlier patch allowed you to feed only the revs (which was
>> what gitk originally wanted), but after zero or more revs (one rev per
>> line), you can now feed a line that consists of "--" and then pathspecs
>> (one path per line).
>
> This looks like a good API feature, though I am curious about the
> missing "4/3" that was the motivation (of course, with a feature
> like this, it may be for your out-of-git script, but as I said, I am
> curious :) ). Is it a response to
>
>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/133268
>
> ?

No.  This series is a follow-up to $gmane/131971; I was suspicious that I
missed something for the API feature to be complete back then (and the
patch was not signed-off partly for that reason), and I found one thing
that was lacking.