Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Aug 27, 2008, 21:23 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808271420210.3363@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <48B5BB35.8090606@pobox.com>

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> 
> I use it to spit out a patch for a specific commit:
> 
> 	git-diff-tree -p $COMMIT

Use

	git show $COMMIT

instead, which is shorter and gives you the log too, and uses a pager by default. And defaults to HEAD, so you don't even need to say $COMMIT if you want to see the top one. IOW, much nicer is so many ways.

Yeah, the "much nicer" obviously does mean "different". If you _rely_ on the fact that you don't get a pager (you just want to scroll youself), or you really don't want to see what the commit message was all about, then 'git diff-tree' is obviously "better".

But at least personally, I really don't know when I last wanted to have anything else than 'git show' for showing a commit.

			Linus