Re: [PATCH] git-pickaxe: blame rewritten.

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Oct 12, 2006, 15:58 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610120854440.3952@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v7iz5rk4b.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> +
> +SYNOPSIS
> +--------
> +'git-pickaxe' [-c] [-l] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-p] [-L n,m] [-S <revs-file>] [--] <file> [<rev>]

Btw, could we please get rid of this horrible command line syntax.

Pretty much _every_ other git command takes the form

	git cmd [<rev>] [--] <path>

but for some reason annotate and blame (and now pickaxe) do it the wrong way around, and do

	git cmd [--] <path> [<rev>]

which is just irritating to somebody who has grown very used to being able to specify revisions first.

(I'd actually also like to have a range-modifier, so that I could do

	git annotate --since=2.weeks.ago v2.6.18.. <path>

that didn't go back beyond a certain point, so the command line syntax actually _does_ matter - even if we don't support that now, having the regular command line syntax means that we -could- support it some day).

		Linus