Re: Inconsistencies with git log

From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Nov 10, 2007, 22:51 UTC
Message-ID: <87d4uhaf3o.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910711071503va92a653s25fd978989d5917d@mail.gmail.com>

"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:

> But if you type 'git log' while cd'd into a subdirectory the whole log
> is almost never what you want. It's this kind of thing that makes git
> harder to use.

Actually I almost always want the "whole project history" when cd'd to a subdir.

Git's convention of doing the whole project by default, but allowing "." (or any other directory name) to narrow it down seems almost perfect to me.

-Miles

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