Hi, On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > the git-rev-list manpage says > > > ** > Diff Formatting > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Below are listed options that control the formatting of diff output. > Some of them are specific to gitlink:git-rev-list[1], however other diff > options may be given. See gitlink:git-diff-files[1] for more options. > ** > > however, the source code says > > > if ((!list && > (!(revs.tag_objects||revs.tree_objects||revs.blob_objects) && > !revs.pending.nr)) || > revs.diff) > usage(rev_list_usage); > > so any attempt at showing diffs with git-rev-list will fail. What's > the deal with this? Probably you want to use "git log". "git blame -L 585,589 builtin-rev-list.c" indicates that 8c1f0b44(Fix up rev-list option parsing) was responsible, which in turn indicates that it was intentional. Hth, Dscho - 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
