From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:42:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Make 'git show' more useful
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0907140140470.3155@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907131425490.13838@localhost.localdomain>

Hi,

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> For some reason, I ended up doing
> 
> 	git show HEAD~5..
> 
> as an odd way of asking for a log. I realize I should just have used "git 
> log", but at the same time it does make perfect conceptual sense.

For some reason, I wrote exactly this patch some time ago, but I forgot 
why I did not send it.  Probably because I did not want to appear as a 
total moron in public.  Which apparently I end up doing anyway.

So count me in on the supporters' side of this patch,
Dscho