From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf•ethz.ch>
To: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web•de>
Cc: <git@vger•kernel.org>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH gitk 0/4] gitk support for git log -L
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 15:17:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87siyu98cq.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51F6CB7D.1070806@web.de> (Jens Lehmann's message of "Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:07:25 +0200")
Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web•de> writes:
> Am 29.07.2013 21:37, schrieb Thomas Rast:
>> Thomas Rast <trast@inf•ethz.ch> writes:
>>
>>> Thomas Rast <trast@inf•ethz.ch> writes:
>>>
>>>> Now that git log -L has hit master, I figure it's time to discuss the
>>>> corresponding change to gitk.
>>>
>>> Paul, any news on this? Any chance we can get it into the next release,
>>> since that will also be the first release to ship with 'git log -L'?
>>
>> Jens pointed out privately that the handling of unstuck -L options is
>> unfortunate, to put it mildly. I'll send a reroll.
>
> But as soon as that is fixed I'd really like to see this applied, as
> I think gitk is the perfect tool to show history information.
Unfortunately it's turning out to be harder than I hoped. gitk runs the
arguments through git-rev-parse, which only knows that -n gets an
unstuck argument. Consequently, gitk accepts an unstuck -n but only
stuck forms of -S and -G.
Fixing it through git-rev-parse feels wrong; rev-parse is supposed to
know about rev-list options, but -S and -G only make sense in
diff-generating walks, and -L only makes any sense at all for git-log.
I'm tempted to leave it at the existing patches for now. That does mean
that -L can only be used in the stuck form; it's the same for -S and -G
already. Then in a later series we can change gitk's argument parsing
to properly treat the options directly, passing only the remaining
arguments through to rev-parse to use the usual revision/filename
distinction logic.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-31 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-09 19:44 [PATCH gitk 0/4] gitk support for git log -L Thomas Rast
2013-06-09 19:44 ` [PATCH gitk 1/4] gitk: refactor per-line part of getblobdiffline and its support Thomas Rast
2013-06-09 19:44 ` [PATCH gitk 2/4] gitk: split out diff part in $commitinfo Thomas Rast
2013-06-09 19:44 ` [PATCH gitk 3/4] gitk: support showing the gathered inline diffs Thomas Rast
2013-06-09 19:44 ` [PATCH gitk 4/4] gitk: recognize -L option Thomas Rast
2013-07-23 15:19 ` [PATCH gitk 0/4] gitk support for git log -L Thomas Rast
2013-07-29 19:37 ` Thomas Rast
2013-07-29 20:07 ` Jens Lehmann
2013-07-31 13:17 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2013-08-18 11:54 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-08-19 8:21 ` Thomas Rast
2013-08-19 17:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-13 6:31 ` Thomas Rast
2013-10-14 5:25 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-10-20 16:57 ` [PATCH] Documentation: revamp gitk(1) Thomas Rast
2013-10-29 7:20 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] gitk -L Thomas Rast
2013-10-29 7:20 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] gitk: support -G option from the command line Thomas Rast
2013-10-30 0:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-30 6:30 ` Thomas Rast
2013-10-30 16:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-29 7:20 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] gitk: refactor per-line part of getblobdiffline and its support Thomas Rast
2013-10-29 7:20 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] gitk: split out diff part in $commitinfo Thomas Rast
2013-10-29 7:20 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] gitk: support showing the gathered inline diffs Thomas Rast
2013-10-29 7:20 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] gitk: recognize -L option Thomas Rast
2013-10-29 7:20 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] Documentation: put blame/log -L in sticked form Thomas Rast
2013-10-30 1:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-30 6:29 ` Thomas Rast
2013-10-30 17:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-30 18:59 ` Thomas Rast
2013-10-30 19:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-11-16 17:37 ` [PATCH v3 gitk 0/5] gitk -L Thomas Rast
2013-11-16 17:37 ` [PATCH v3 gitk 1/5] gitk: support -G option from the command line Thomas Rast
2013-11-16 17:37 ` [PATCH v3 gitk 2/5] gitk: refactor per-line part of getblobdiffline and its support Thomas Rast
2013-11-16 17:37 ` [PATCH v3 gitk 3/5] gitk: split out diff part in $commitinfo Thomas Rast
2013-11-16 17:37 ` [PATCH v3 gitk 4/5] gitk: support showing the gathered inline diffs Thomas Rast
2013-11-16 17:37 ` [PATCH v3 gitk 5/5] gitk: recognize -L option Thomas Rast
2013-12-01 22:25 ` [PATCH v3 gitk 0/5] gitk -L Paul Mackerras
2013-11-16 17:37 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Documentation: stuck arguments and gitk log -L Thomas Rast
2013-11-16 17:37 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] commit-tree: use prefixcmp instead of memcmp(..., N) Thomas Rast
2013-11-16 17:37 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] Documentation: convert to --option=arg form where possible Thomas Rast
2013-11-16 17:37 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] Documentation/gitk: document -L option Thomas Rast
2013-10-29 7:20 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] " Thomas Rast
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