Re: how to display file history?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 15, 2006, 18:51 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605151149460.3866@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <e5bfff550605151132s4605a241sd3132aaeb2de6a39@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 15 May 2006, Marco Costalba wrote:

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> 
> $ git-rev-list --topo-order --after="Apr 10" --before="Apr 11" HEAD |wc
>     14      14     574
> $ git-rev-list --topo-order --boundary --after="Apr 10" --before="Apr
> 11" HEAD |wc
>     18      18     742
> 
> Boundary revisions in this case are _not_ passed through search
> filtering. Using --boundary option we get revisions ouside given
> filter range.

Right. And the commit counting is a special filter, and "boundary" is special in that it doesn't normally honor some other filters (it _does_ honor path-based ones, though, I think).

So you really should see "--boundary" as a heuristic, and as a hack to help you close the loop on uninteresting commits _faster_. But if something else has closed it for other reasons, you shouldn't depend on it.

		Linus