Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
I use it to spit out a patch for a specific commit:
git-diff-tree -p $COMMIT
Use
git show $COMMIT
instead, which is shorter and gives you the log too, and uses a pager by
default. And defaults to HEAD, so you don't even need to say $COMMIT if
you want to see the top one. IOW, much nicer is so many ways.
Yeah, the "much nicer" obviously does mean "different". If you _rely_ on
the fact that you don't get a pager (you just want to scroll youself), or
you really don't want to see what the commit message was all about, then
'git diff-tree' is obviously "better".
'git show' is quite sufficient, as long as I can pipe its output into
patch(1) or write it to a foo.patch file, which appears to be the case.
git-diff-tree -p was from the old days; I readily admit being a git
old-timer :)
Anything that reduces my typing is great, and 'git show' is certainly an
improvement in that regard.
Jeff, typing with a sprained finger (puppies can be a handful)
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