Re: [tig] Feeding specific revisions to tig

From: Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jbq@caraldi.com>
Date: Sep 15, 2011, 15:10 UTC
Message-ID: <CAK6bCawiae55q_+E4pWDs_v6V0RLhU97zrw9P1N5j-eCrVSh9w@mail.gmail.com>
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2009/4/27 Jonas Fonseca <jonas.fonseca@gmail.com>:

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> Sorry for the slow reply ...
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 16:55, Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jbq@caraldi.com> wrote:
>> Restarting this old thread again.  Starting from 0.13 the
>> *tignowalk()* hack does not work anymore.  What's the preferred way to
>> feed specific revisions using stdin now?
>
> I don't know if it is preferred, but it works. First add a git alias:
>
> [alias]
>        tignowalk-helper = !git rev-list --pretty=raw --no-walk --stdin<
>
> Then modify tignowalk by replacing the line calling tig to say:
>
> TIG_MAIN_CMD="git tignowalk-helper $tmp" tig </dev/tty
>
> ... and it should work. Maybe more git alias functionality can
> simplify the hack.

Restarting this thread again... it seems like every new version of tig breaks this usecase :-)

Any idea how to feed specific revisions to tig 0.18? The trick does not work anymore, as support for TIG_MAIN_CMD was dropped.

-- 
Jean-Baptiste Quenot