From: Kari Hameenaho <khaho@kolumbus.fi>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 18:18:59 GMT
Subject: Re: gitk-1.0 released
Message-ID: <d6l9l1$ttd$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <17037.5109.556362.904185@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Paul Mackerras wrote:

> 
> Yes, indeed.  I'll have to think about how to do it in a responsive
> fashion, since getting the necessary information involves reading all
> the commits and all the tree objects back to the beginning of time,
> AFAICS.  

Maybe its not necessary to go back all the way. It is possible to look only
commits between 2.6.12-rc4 and 2.6.12-rc3, like follows (needs just a few
fixes to gitk):

gitk -d $(commit-id v2.6.12-rc4) ^$(parent-id $(commit-id v2.6.12-rc3))

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Kari Hämeenaho