Re: Bug with rev-list --reverse?

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 18, 2013, 11:18 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s014Yv9+N7=0CYiYYybJCZJ7r-vQp_zcfg6Xo=3f21RWA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1304181146090.30868@ds9.cixit.se>

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 5:47 AM, Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se> wrote:

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>> % git log --oneline -1 v1.8.1.5^..v1.8.1.6
>> % git log --oneline --reverse -1 v1.8.1.5^..v1.8.1.6
>>
>> I expect to get a different output, and not both showing v1.8.1.6.
>> Wouldn't you agree?
>
>
>  Quoting the manual page:
>
>  Commit Limiting
>    Besides specifying a range of commits that should be listed using the
> special notations explained in the description, additional commit limiting
> may be applied. Note that they are applied before commit ordering and
> formatting options, such as --reverse.
>
> Given that, I would expect the output to be the same.

If expectations were based on documentation, all one has to do is document bugs, and there would be no bugs anymore :)

Code can be changed to fit more appropriately user expectations (which are independent of documentation), and the documentation updated accordingly.

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Felipe Contreras