Re: git apologia

[Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:55 AM, Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:

> 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?
>
> That's the one thing I still prefer to use gitk for.  Everyting else is
> much easier to do right in Emacs with magit.

Why not also read commits from the magit log? (Full disclosure: I like
gitk too, for its ability to highlight commits touching one or more
selected files.)