On 5/8/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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> > Well, we actually do have that. "git log" (or "git-rev-list") really does > all the heavy lifting. The reason you can do things like "gitk --merge" is > not because gitk itself has _any_ idea about anything, but because it just > passes the arguments down to git-rev-list (and hopefully soon git log), > which really does all the complex stuff. >
To replace 'git rev-list' with 'git log' an important missing feature, at least for me, is the support for '--stdin' option of 'git-rev-list' that currently seems missing in 'git log'
I found this limit while trying to use 'git log' instead of 'git rev-list'. The problem is that command line arguments could be very long in some cases, typically when passing a list of sha's values (as example all the branches sha). This happens of course when 'git log' is run by script/applications not directly by the user.
Under Linux, command line arguments size limits are _normaly_ enough (you could have problems for repository with hundreds of tags/branches), but under *others* OS we are not so lucky.
So with '--stdin' you have an elegant solution to support any kind of repository under any OS ignoring the platform limit on command line length.
Marco