Re: What should I use instead of git show?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mar 13, 2006, 16:33 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603130830050.3618@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <200603131717.53416.astralstorm@o2.pl>

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote:

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> On Monday 13 March 2006 15:47, Olivier Galibert wrote yet:
> > Since it seems to be gone.
> >
> > Up until now, when I wanted to send a patch to someone with the
> > associated changelog, I just did a git log to find the changelog sha1
> > then a git show to get the goods.  How am I supposed to do that now?
> >
> >   OG.
> 
> Why not use git-whatchanged? It's exacly meant to do this.
> Or try qgit, or even gitk (which is what git show did).

Why not just use "git show"?

It hasn't gone anywhere that I know of. It's still there.

Are you stuck with an older version of git that doesn't have it? If so, you can indeed do

	git whatchanged -p -1 <sha1>

instead (actually, if your git is really old, you shouldn't use the modern shorthand of "-1", you should use the longer "--max-count=1" instead).

		Linus