Re: Inconsistencies with git log

From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Nov 8, 2007, 09:19 UTC
Message-ID: <ABA55D82-3CB3-4AAA-9C0A-7A7B0C4F91AE@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910711071503va92a653s25fd978989d5917d@mail.gmail.com>

El 8/11/2007, a las 0:03, Jon Smirl escribió:

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

At least in my case, that's completely untrue. Whole-project history is basically *always* what I want even if I am cd'd into a subdirectory. If I wanted to path-limit the project history I'd do "git log ."

Cheers, Wincent

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