On Thursday 03 June 2010 01:37:20 Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > As a side effect, this unfortunately changes the meaning of > > ‘git log --oneline --decorate --no-walk -5 --all’: instead of listing > > five refs, after this patch that command would list the five most > > recent commits. > > It indeed is a change in behaviour, but in this case it is probably not > such a big deal. > > The order "--all" (or "--branches" for that matter) lists refs doesn't > have any logical relationship with the order of importance from the end > user's point of view (they're just alphabetical), and asking for "first > five" won't make much sense unless you are learning or testing the > combinations of options, i.e. not in real life, I think. I agree and I think Jonathan's patch would be nice to have. Thanks both, Christian. -- 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