Re: gitweb.cgi history not shown

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 11, 2006, 16:59 UTC
Message-ID: <e6hi4g$k4a$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606110933040.5498@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> Btw, this is also why I suggested adding a "--no-simplify-history" flag, 
> because in this case, that's exactly what _you_ want. The reason git is 
> doing something unexpected - and in your case inferior - is exactly that 
> what you want in this case is really not "explain the STATE of this file", 
> but you want "give me ALL THE HISTORY concerning this filename".

[...]

> Btw, the original "git whatchanged -p" answered exactly the question you 
> had, and the semantics changed when we rewrite "git whatchanged" to act 
> like "git log -p".

[...]

> And I do agree that we should teach "git log" and friends to be able to 
> answer both questions, and that's what my suggested patch (fleshed out 
> properly, of course) should do.

Could we please 'git whatchanged -p' default to the original (before rewrite) behavior, i.e. ALL THE HISTORY?

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland