From: Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jbq@caraldi.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:15:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [tig] Feeding specific revisions to tig
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2009/4/27 Jonas Fonseca <jonas.fonseca@gmail.com>:

> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 16:55, Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jbq@caraldi.com> wrote:

>> Restarting this old thread again.  Starting from 0.13 the
>> *tignowalk()* hack does not work anymore.  What's the preferred way to
>> feed specific revisions using stdin now?
>
> I don't know if it is preferred, but it works. First add a git alias:
>
> [alias]
>        tignowalk-helper = !git rev-list --pretty=raw --no-walk --stdin<
>
> Then modify tignowalk by replacing the line calling tig to say:
>
> TIG_MAIN_CMD="git tignowalk-helper $tmp" tig </dev/tty
>
> ... and it should work. Maybe more git alias functionality can
> simplify the hack.

Works a treat, thanks!

I wonder how you managed to invent this trick though :-)
-- 
Jean-Baptiste Quenot
http://jbq.caraldi.com/