Jon Smirl wrote: > The summary of this is that new users do not expect "git log" to give > them the whole log when the command is executed in a subdirectory. > This causes a training burden because of the unexpected behavior. They > try 'git log' and then I have to tell them to use "git log ." That's too bad, that they have to unlearn bad expectations. Having "git log" _always_ meaning whole history is very useful. You can always do "git log ." (two characters more); how do you propose to request full history from within subdirectory if by default "git log" output would limit history to current directory only? -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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
