From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:15:39 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-rev-list(1): group options; reformat; document more options Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20060831230811.GE482@diku.dk> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Jonas Fonseca wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote Thu, Aug 31, 2006: > > > > Umm? You should get a "usage" error, no? > > Yes, ok, they do not seem to make sense for git-rev-list, however if you > pass either to git-log, the output seems to make room for a diff, adding > one extra newline, but without appending any diff. Ahh. I think that a "-r" without any other request for patches (or "--name-status" or similar) should probably imply "--raw". At least that was how it historically worked.. Anyway, _if_ it ever worked (and I think it did, but I'm way too lazy to bother checking), this may have been broken by the extensive diff option cleanups by Timo in June. Timo? Junio? Linus