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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-07-13 14:41:12 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-07-14 13:50:29 -0700 |
| commit | f222abdeec7838891e79abd152c6cb67e532b68d (patch) | |
| tree | c295583a8511deb7a7ee9803a7608cf48935c847 /revision.c | |
| parent | 4fe1a61973c82c459ac0a25cb5342d00d347dfd9 (diff) | |
| download | git-f222abdeec7838891e79abd152c6cb67e532b68d.tar.gz | |
Make 'git show' more useful
For some reason, I ended up doing
git show HEAD~5..
as an odd way of asking for a log. I realize I should just have used "git
log", but at the same time it does make perfect conceptual sense. After
all, you _could_ have done
git show HEAD HEAD~1 HEAD~2 HEAD~3 HEAD~4
and saying "git show HEAD~5.." is pretty natural. It's not like "git show"
only ever showed a single commit (or other object) before either! So
conceptually, giving a commit range is a very sensible operation, even
though you'd traditionally have used "git log" for that.
However, doing that currently results in an error
fatal: object ranges do not make sense when not walking revisions
which admittedly _also_ makes perfect sense - from an internal git
implementation standpoint in 'revision.c'.
However, I think that asking to show a range makes sense to a user, while
saying "object ranges no not make sense when not walking revisions" only
makes sense to a git developer.
So on the whole, of the two different "makes perfect sense" behaviors, I
think I originally picked the wrong one. And quite frankly, I don't really
see anybody actually _depending_ on that error case. So why not change it?
So rather than error out, just turn that non-walking error case into a
"silently turn on walking" instead.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'revision.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | revision.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c index a31434bdc8..9f5dac5f1d 100644 --- a/revision.c +++ b/revision.c @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ void mark_parents_uninteresting(struct commit *commit) static void add_pending_object_with_mode(struct rev_info *revs, struct object *obj, const char *name, unsigned mode) { if (revs->no_walk && (obj->flags & UNINTERESTING)) - die("object ranges do not make sense when not walking revisions"); + revs->no_walk = 0; if (revs->reflog_info && obj->type == OBJ_COMMIT && add_reflog_for_walk(revs->reflog_info, (struct commit *)obj, name)) |