Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins

* Jeff Garzik [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Yeah, the "much nicer" obviously does mean "different". If you 
_rely_ on the fact that you don't get a pager (you just want to 
scroll youself), or you really don't want to see what the commit 
message was all about, then 'git diff-tree' is obviously "better".

'git show' is quite sufficient, as long as I can pipe its output into 
patch(1) or write it to a foo.patch file, which appears to be the 
case.

the only time git show is not sufficient for me in practice, the 
following one is:

  git log --pretty=email -p -1

that's when i want to do precise import/export of patches from/to email. 
(but it's rare)

	Ingo