Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] Implement 'prior' commit object links (and other commit links ideas)

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Apr 25, 2006, 19:58 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604251256050.3701@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vodypv3gz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> >
> > Sure it does. It's an integral part of logging: we not only verify the 
> > format, we also have multiple different ways of showing it. So it 
> > definitely changes the way we "act", very fundamentally.
> 
> Unfair ;-).  I'd consider "git log" semi-Porcelain and consider
> rev-list and cat-file the true core level.

Well, "git log" is really just "git-rev-list --pretty", so whichever way you turn, it's there.

I come from a slightly different background, where "core git" in many ways originally was about "what I use" and the whole "porcelain" side ends up being "what people who need hand-holding use" ;)

Of course, it expanded a bit from that original definition ;)

		Linus