Re: git-contacts questions

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 29, 2013, 10:35 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s2KdHPH-UaSwdiJtT8WNo7uT9K_ArXwqHhCryPRsX1qjA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAHGBnuP6nyTCGGNntvWVYAtxNX9xgt6=F3HheiEUcPU_9TP-1g@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Felipe Contreras
> <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> 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'.
>
> Oh, that's pretty much unexpected. Wouldn't it be much more natural if
> I had to specify the commit(s) that introduce(s) the changes that I
> want others to look at?

Yeah, that's exactly what you are doing. How do you tell 'git log' to show you certain changes?

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>> You can also try git-related instead[1].
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/felipec/git-related
>
> I just did very quickly (with Ruby 1.8.7) and I get:
>
> $ git related b0783baacd20be7007df40cf274985c4863d63fb
> C:/Program Files (x86)/Git/libexec/git-core/git-related:309:in
> `popen': can't convert Array into String (TypeError)
>         from C:/Program Files
> (x86)/Git/libexec/git-core/git-related:309:in `from_rev_args'
>         from C:/Program Files (x86)/Git/libexec/git-core/git-related:345

Fixed.

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Felipe Contreras