From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:39:36 GMT
Subject: Re: GSoC draft proposal: Line-level history browser
Message-ID: <81b0412b1003220339n80ab38bh9e1a70c197538ac2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vhbo8syyf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 06:32, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> While I don't seriously buy "multiple files" either, if that is really

yeah, _really_

> needed, I could be pursuaded with  "log -- path1:10-15 path2:1-7", or
> "log -L path1:10-15 -Lpath2:1-7 -- path1 path2" or something similarly
> ugly like these, but that is not how we generally name things, and it
> probably shouldn't be a new option to "log" anymore.

But then, how about putting the "path" last in the argument,
so that the unambiguosly defined part of the format comes first?
Less need for quoting of ":" (or "@") in pathnames.