Re: git-log produces no output

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Apr 21, 2006, 20:25 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604211322140.3701@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vpsjasnh5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
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> > On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> >> This patch would have made things a lot more obvious.
> >
> > Actually, scratch that one, and use this one instead. Much better, and 
> > actually allows Bob's crazy PAGER environment variable to work, rather 
> > than just reporting an error about it.
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> Agreed, this is much better than just punting.  Sign-off?

Yup, you can just go wild with the

	Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

lines. My employment contract requires that everything I produce is open source ;)

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> BTW: The extended extended SHA1 is a great addition.  I do not
> usually have contrib/colordiff checked out (it is in "pu", not
> in "next"), but I can easily do:
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> 	git tar-tree pu:contrib/colordiff colordiff | tar xf -

Ahh, yes. That is one situation where a sub-tree SHA1 makes more sense than most (the fact that it works with "git diff" and directory renames is likely more of a curiosity than anything widely useful, I think)

> BTW: Allow me to try "git fmt-patch -1" ;-).

Looks good to me.

		Linus