From: Marco Costalba Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 18:32:39 GMT Subject: Re: how to display file history? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 5/15/06, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > qgit would seem to prefer to have the commit counting only affect the > "primary" commits, and not the "boundary" ones at all. Which might be > sensible, but it's not the semantics it has now. > > gitk doesn't care, because it uses the boundary commits just as hints. > $ git-rev-list --topo-order --after="Apr 10" --before="Apr 11" HEAD |wc 14 14 574 $ git-rev-list --topo-order --boundary --after="Apr 10" --before="Apr 11" HEAD |wc 18 18 742 Boundary revisions in this case are _not_ passed through search filtering. Using --boundary option we get revisions ouside given filter range. This does not apply to our previous example. So at least --boundary behaviour it's a little bit inconsistent at the moment. Marco