From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:27:58 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Documentation: rev-list-options: clarify history simplification with paths Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vabfk3cge.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> On Sun, 10 Aug 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Personally I do not think --full-history without --parents is of much > usefulness (I'd let Linus or somebody else defend this usage, or make it > imply revs.rewrite_parents otherwise). If you remove that case from your > set of experiments in the equation, do the rest of the results make sense? Oh, it's _very_ useful. The most common case is "git whatchanged". It's useful to find a commit that did some change _without_ any graphical front-end. And then the merges and parenthood are totally pointless - no human can try to tie things together in their head _anyway_, so why show them? You just want to find the change. Linus