From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:44:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Make 'git show' more useful
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0907141243410.3155@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <4A5C24BE.4090804@gnu.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> > > The actual "--no-walk" flag was then added over a year later by 
> > > Dsco, in commit 8e64006eee ("Teach revision machinery about 
> > > --no-walk").
> > >
> > > Doing a "git log -p -S--no-walk", I have to admit that I don't find 
> > > a single actual _use_ of --no-walk.
> >
> > Actually, I remember very precisely why I introduced it.  The 
> > difference between "git log --no-walk a b c" and "git show a b c" is 
> > that "git log" sorts the commits by commit time, which is pretty 
> > important in my case.
> 
> Very nice.  Can you add a test for that?

Unfortunately, no; I am very short on time.

Ciao,
Dscho