Johannes Sixt venit, vidit, dixit 31.03.2011 12:18: > Am 3/31/2011 11:17, schrieb Michael J Gruber: >> By design, "git show commit -- path" is not "git show commit:path", and >> there is no reason to change that. But "git show commit -- path" simply >> returns nothing at all "most of the time" because it prunes by pathspec >> even though it does not walk commits. This is pretty useless. >> >> So, turn off pruning (but keep diff limiting of course) so that "git >> show commit -- path" shows the commit message and the diff that the >> commit introduces to path (filtered by path); only the diff will be >> empty "most of the time". > > How does this interfere with git show --walk commit -- path? Will it now > show all commits instead of just those that changed path? Hmpft, git show --walk origin/master fatal: unrecognized argument: --walk No, that is without my patch ;) In other words: "ENOPARSEOPTS in revision.c", there is no "--walk". 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