From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Damien Robert Subject: Re: Remove old forgotten command: whatchanged Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 00:04:09 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <7v61vg9eht.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 09 02:04:35 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V7aC3-0000Jt-1p for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2013 02:04:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966789Ab3HIAEb (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Aug 2013 20:04:31 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52792 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966505Ab3HIAEa (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Aug 2013 20:04:30 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V7aBw-0000FK-7v for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2013 02:04:28 +0200 Received: from phare.normalesup.org ([129.199.129.80]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Aug 2013 02:04:28 +0200 Received: from damien.olivier.robert+gmane by phare.normalesup.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Aug 2013 02:04:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: phare.normalesup.org X-Newsreader: Flrn (0.9.20070704) X-Start-date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 01:55:07 +0200 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote in message <7v61vg9eht.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>: > The "tutorial" was written in fairly early days of Git's history, in > order to primarily help those who want to use the plumbing command > to script their own Porcelain commands. As it says at the very > beginning, the end-user tutorial to use Git's Porcelain is > gittutorial.txt and the user manual, not this document. Yes, and even if it's old, it is a really well done tutorial to understand the internals of git. I read it after gittutorial and gittutorial-2. It's just that I was surprised to learn about this command, "much more powerful" than git-log. To me it looked a lot like git log --raw, and I found git log -p more useful, so I was wondering what I was missing until I read the source to see that nowadays the two commands were mostly the same. > The above section primarily explains the use of diff-tree and it was > appropriate back when git-whatchanged was a script. The intent of > the whole document, not just this section, was to tickle the > curiousity of the users and encourage them to see how the above > "much more powerful" whatchanged was implemented by going to the > source. Well in this case you can say that the intent was successful since it made me read the source code ;)