Re: [PATCH/RFC] Add git-changelog-script to show the changes between two commits

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Jul 21, 2005, 20:00 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507211256460.6074@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050721194138.GP20369@mythryan2.michonline.com>

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Ryan Anderson wrote:

>
> Nevermind, I apparently wanted:
> 	git-whatchanged HEAD ^$LAST_RELEASED_COMMIT

Yes. And since git-whatchanged uses git-rev-parse, and can thus use the extended git commit format, including ranges, you can literally write the above as

	git-whatchanged $LAST_RELEASED_COMMIT..

(or, if you only care about the log, not the actual diff lines, use the faster and simpler

	git log $LAST_RELEASED_COMMIT..

which will also show you merges - something git-whatchanged doesn't do).

You can also use the "--pretty" format specializers, so

	git log --pretty=short $LAST_RELEASED_COMMIT..

will do exactly what you'd expect it to do.

		Linus