From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:03:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-show: also handle blobs
Message-ID: <ekv721$5el$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612031952050.28348@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

>  
>  DESCRIPTION
>  -----------
> -Shows commit log and textual diff for a single commit.  The
> -command internally invokes 'git-rev-list' piped to
> -'git-diff-tree', and takes command line options for both of
> -these commands. It also presents the merge commit in a special
> -format as produced by 'git-diff-tree --cc'.
> +Shows a commit or blob. In case of a commit it shows the
> +log message and textual diff for a single commit. It also
> +presents the merge commit in a special format as produced by
> +'git-diff-tree --cc'.
>  
>  This manual page describes only the most frequently used options.
>  

This loses the information that you can use all the options
of git-diff-tree and all the options of git-rev-list in git-show.

But I agre that technical information should not be in DESCRIPTION
section of manpage... perhaps later, if it is needed.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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