From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: git apologia Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 19:47:14 +0200 Message-ID: <838uj9bty5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141114183737.GB3168@acm.acm> <5466517B.50705@porkrind.org> <20141114215404.GD3168@acm.acm> <838ujchods.fsf@gnu.org> <8761egx1k2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83sihkg2ds.fsf@gnu.org> <87vbmgv3b9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83389jdtae.fsf@gnu.org> <87k32uvg2x.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83ioidbwz5.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416246465 1779 80.91.229.3 (17 Nov 2014 17:47:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:47:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 17 18:47:38 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XqQOn-0007Xm-Lk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:47:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49493 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqQOn-0001cA-BX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:47:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52614) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqQOf-0001XO-RW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:47:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqQOb-0003mJ-1v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:47:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:48472) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqQOa-0003mC-Qi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:47:24 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NF7002002IXHQ00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 19:47:23 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NF7002D42QZGV20@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 19:47:23 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177461 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Schwab > Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:50:55 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > When I pull from upstream, I almost always look at the log summary > > lines of the last dozen commits, and then frequently examine one or > > more of those in detail. So I need a quick and convenient method of > > doing "git show" or its equivalent without the need to type the 7 hex > > characters of the SHA1 checksum. What's more natural than asking for > > the Nth previous commit? > > Copy and paste from the output of git pull, which tells you exactly what > has changed. Pass that to git log. Yes, that's another way. Thanks.