Re: git-contacts questions

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 29, 2013, 08:57 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s1+npNnR8-exARL8kamQ81JwyLhhQnnkv6DvK8e3qOfHA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAHGBnuPW3dtiL-=6BgvaOB4VvOAPyZhrVS3WGreVH_Pt81=wyg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 1) Passing just "HEAD" as a committish like in "git contacts HEAD"
> does not output anything for me, but using the SHA1 for HEAD does
> neither. My HEAD commit does not add any files, but only modifies
> previously existing files, so I would have expected some output. In
> case it turns out to be correct to have no output in my case, could we
> probably say that in some message to the user?

It should be HEAD^, or -1, like with 'git format-patch'.

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> 2) For some commits I get error messages from "git blame" in function
> get_blame because multiple -L options are specified:
>
> $ git contacts b0783baacd20be7007df40cf274985c4863d63fb
> fatal: More than one '-L n,m' option given
> fatal: More than one '-L n,m' option given
> fatal: More than one '-L n,m' option given
> fatal: More than one '-L n,m' option given
>
> From reading git-blame's man page it indeed seems to me as if only one
> -L option is allowed, so is this something that needs to be fixed in
> git-contacts?

You are probably using a newer version of the script on an older version of Git.

You can also try git-related instead[1].

[1] https://github.com/felipec/git-related

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Felipe Contreras