Eli Barzilay venit, vidit, dixit 22.03.2010 12:39: > Eli Barzilay <eli@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> [...] >> >> Also, is there a way to avoid the "commit <sha1>" line, print some >> information that I specify in the format string, and show the whole >> message as is (without wrapping or other tweaks)? > > Looks like `git log' does something similar to what I want anyway, > which leads me to a related question -- it's not clear to me what are > the differences between `git rev-list', `git log', `git diff', and > `git show', since it looks like they can all be tweaked to produce > similar outputs. Are they all the same with different outputs? Is > there some description of them with the differences explained? The rev-list man page lists all commands of that family, with rev-list being the bare bones version, and log and friends being more "high level". log and rev-list walk the revision tree, show does not. Most of that can be changed through options. whatchanged is a special family member... diff is from a completely different family (see git help diff or git help diffcore). It never walks, but compares revisions (or other things). The log family never compares things, but can show a patch, i.e. the difference to the ancestor(s). > Also related, it looks like `--abbrev-commit' has no effect on `git > rev-list', but does on `git log', even through it's documented in the > former's man page. So it looks like either there are more > (undocumented?) differences, or maybe that's also a bug? I consider this a bug. In fact, it has an effect, but not a visible one. You would have to use --abbrev=7 or such. A patch is upcoming. Cheers, Michael -- 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