On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:36:36AM +0200, Thomas Rast wrote: > SZEDER Gábor wrote: > > Commit a393777e (bash completion: refactor common log, shortlog and gitk > > options, 2009-02-16) introduced a list of command line options that go > > well with 'git log' and 'git shortlog' but not with gitk. However, > > these options are all 'git rev-list' options, and, therefore, are > > accepted by gitk, too. > [...] > > + --author= --committer= --grep= > > + --all-match > > At the time, I tried to skip options to gitk that disconnect history > in places where it really is connected. This applies to --author, > --committer and --grep, which also have a GUI equivalent. However, > --all-match doesn't, and then the other three are also needed, so I > guess this makes sense. I see. I was not sure what you meant by "go well", but suspected this. However, the '--no-merges' option was already there earlier, and it also produces disconnected history. I'm not sure how often these options are used with gitk, but it just happened yesterday that I wanted to use 'gitk --author=<me> ...' to find one of my commits. Best, Gábor -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html