Re: Inconsistencies with git log

On 11/7/07, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Shouldn't git log default to "git log ."?

Well, it is in line with the other commands being able to work on
subdirectories, but doing the whole repository operation by default.

I agree with this and see how it got this way.

We also tend to take the approach of viewing the history as that of
the whole project.

But if you type 'git log' while cd'd into a subdirectory the whole log
is almost never what you want. It's this kind of thing that makes git
harder to use.

This approach also means that it is a much more expensive operation to log
the history as seen by a subdirectory, which is another reason why it is
not the default.

Hth,
Dscho

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