Re: Add a "git show" command to show a commit

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Feb 5, 2006, 22:55 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602051451360.3854@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vd5i1h1bx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
> Isn't this "git whatchanged -n1 --cc --always"?

Getting closer, yes.

Especially these days that you can write "-1" instead of "--max-count=1", and if we make "--cc" the default for "git-whatchanged", I guess we could just drop this.

> Except that --cc does not make much sense without being -p, so
> the logic to do --name-status and friends are pretty much
> wasted, no?

You're right. The "--cc" should be in the default flags (instead of -p), not unconditionally on the command line.

			Linus

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