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Re: git-log vs git-rev-list

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
May 30, 2008, 20:22 UTC
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<alpine.LFD.1.10.0805301320460.3141@woody.linux-foundation.org>
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On Fri, 30 May 2008, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> Because it confused me, I'm probably not the first to be confused and it
> will probably confuse others in the future too. The UI should be more
> consistent.

Btw, the reason this is irrelevant is that "git rev-list" isn't even a UI. It's internal plumbing, and almost all of it's flags etc are directly from historical reasons. IOW, it does bisection because it used to be the only program that did any revision walking. It can do pretty much what git log does for the same reason.

So breaking git rev-list because somebody thinks it's "UI" is odd totally misses the whole _point_ of the command.

		Linus
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