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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: David Ho <davidkwho@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-whatchanged does not show merge result?
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:39:30 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510141138030.23590@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4dd15d180510141031n531b9e0enc8e7d668b1e61b83@mail.gmail.com>



On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, David Ho wrote:
>
> I was a little worried when I did git-whatchanged on a file and there
> was a hole in the history where the merge is.  This reassured me that
> all changes to the file is accessible (I'm sure they are all stored
> safely in the repo =).

Btw, "git-whatchanged" really _can_ hide real stuff, namely when nothing 
changed.

A commit that has no changes at all (which is quite possible) will never 
be shown by git-whatchanged. 

So in many ways, "git log" is the way to see all commits. 
"git-whatchanged" is really just a way to see the _changes_, and by 
defauly it ignores merges just because the changes are "complicated".

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-14 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4dd15d180510140929x2c69f61ag19a1409cfd993e7b@mail.gmail.com>
2005-10-14 16:33 ` git-whatchanged does not show merge result? David Ho
2005-10-14 17:13   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-14 17:31     ` David Ho
2005-10-14 18:39       ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2005-10-14 17:24   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-14 17:39     ` David Ho

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