From: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl•com>
To: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks•im>, Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] last-modified: better document how depth in handled
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:01:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tsy9w3k1.fsf@iotcl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aS1uz6mc0WW9kjzN@pks.im>
Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks•im> writes:
> Hm, that's confusing indeed. Is it possible for git-last-modified(1) to
> do the "right thing" automatically? That is, given "sub/file", show when
> that specific file has been last modified? Or is there a good
> (non-technical) reason it behaves the way it does?
You bring up a good point. In the version of git-blame-tree(1) that
GitHub did share, the `--recursive` flag is enabled by default. So if
you pass a file path to the command, you'll get the "right thing". But
as I am pointing out in this patch, if you pass a subtree, everything in
that subtree is shown too. You could argue this is the "right thing".
Anyhow, in the version of git-last-modified(1) I submitted upstream,
recursive is not enabled by default. My reason, at the time option
--max-depth wasn't implemented yet. I submitted those changes in a
separate series (these patches also originate from GitHub by the way).
If those patches wouldn't land, I think always-on recursive behavior for
git-last-modified(1) would be quite annoying.
So long story short, as git-last-modified(1) is still marked as
"EXPERIMENTAL", shall we make recursive always-on?
--
Cheers,
Toon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-02 11:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-26 6:09 [PATCH 0/3] Expand and enhance git-last-modified(1) documentation Toon Claes
2025-11-26 6:09 ` [PATCH 1/3] last-modified: handle and document NUL termination Toon Claes
2025-11-26 13:03 ` Karthik Nayak
2025-11-26 16:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-11-28 18:50 ` Toon Claes
2025-12-01 10:32 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-11-26 6:09 ` [PATCH 2/3] last-modified: document option --max-depth Toon Claes
2025-11-26 13:31 ` Karthik Nayak
2026-01-16 12:13 ` Toon Claes
2025-11-26 19:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-11-28 18:51 ` Toon Claes
2025-11-26 6:09 ` [PATCH 3/3] last-modified: better document how depth in handled Toon Claes
2025-11-26 17:38 ` Eric Sunshine
2025-12-01 10:32 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-12-02 11:01 ` Toon Claes [this message]
2025-12-02 17:14 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-01-16 13:22 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Change git-last-modified(1) default behavior and add documentation Toon Claes
2026-01-16 13:22 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] last-modified: document NUL termination Toon Claes
2026-01-16 13:22 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] last-modified: add option '-z' to help output Toon Claes
2026-01-16 18:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-01-16 13:22 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] last-modified: document option --max-depth Toon Claes
2026-01-16 13:22 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] last-modified: add option '--max-depth' to help output Toon Claes
2026-01-16 18:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-01-16 13:22 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] last-modified: change default max-depth to 0 Toon Claes
2026-01-16 18:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-01-16 13:34 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Change git-last-modified(1) default behavior and add documentation Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-01-20 10:44 ` Toon Claes
2026-01-20 21:47 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] " Toon Claes
2026-01-20 21:47 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] last-modified: clarify in the docs the command takes a pathspec Toon Claes
2026-01-20 21:47 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] last-modified: document option '-z' Toon Claes
2026-01-20 21:47 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] last-modified: document option '--max-depth' Toon Claes
2026-01-20 21:47 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] last-modified: change default max-depth to 0 Toon Claes
2026-01-25 11:24 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-01-21 18:40 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] Change git-last-modified(1) default behavior and add documentation Junio C Hamano
2026-02-03 9:58 ` Karthik Nayak
2026-02-03 17:42 ` Junio C Hamano
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