Re: Inconsistencies with git log

From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 7, 2007, 23:03 UTC
Message-ID: <9e4733910711071503va92a653s25fd978989d5917d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711072255420.4362@racer.site>

On 11/7/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> > Shouldn't git log default to "git log ."?
>
> Well, it is in line with the other commands being able to work on
> subdirectories, but doing the whole repository operation by default.

I agree with this and see how it got this way.

> We also tend to take the approach of viewing the history as that of
> the whole project.

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.

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> This approach also means that it is a much more expensive operation to log
> the history as seen by a subdirectory, which is another reason why it is
> not the default.
>
> Hth,
> Dscho
>
>

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com