On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 03:39:53PM -0600, Robert Dailey wrote:
> It also feels like there should be a
> shorthand for the `git log` usage in conjunction with `git show`... I
> could probably make an alias for it.
One thing I didn't see mentioned in this thread is that the question
"show me the commit closest to time X" does not have a single answer.
When there are branches, there may be many such answers, one for each
line of simultaneous development.
So people tend not to ask that question[1], and therefore nobody
bothered to make a convenient shorthand for it.
-Peff
[1] What do they ask instead? I find most of my older queries for
commits are satisfied following parent links from well-known points.
E.g., finding where topic X was merged, and then walking backwards
using "^2" to see the tip of the original topic.
If I am looking for information about a particular file about a year
ago, I often turn to "-S" or git-blame (actually, "tig blame" in my
case, which lets you walk backwards interactively).
But of course the exact query will depend on just what it is you
want to know. :)
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