From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:41:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Inconsistencies with git log
Message-ID: <fh263e$6c0$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910711090920m6b0b7704x7c5a3849215f385c@mail.gmail.com>

Jon Smirl wrote:

> The summary of this is that new users do not expect "git log" to give
> them the whole log when the command is executed in a subdirectory.
> This causes a training burden because of the unexpected behavior. They
> try 'git log' and then I have to tell them to use "git log ."

That's too bad, that they have to unlearn bad expectations. Having
"git log" _always_ meaning whole history is very useful. You can always
do "git log ." (two characters more); how do you propose to request
full history from within subdirectory if by default "git log" output
would limit history to current directory only?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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