Re: [Xen-devel] Moving xen*.hg to git

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 14:55 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 20.02.13 at 16:27, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If any committer needs help getting git to work please feel free to
> > ask.  git has many advantages but its user interface has received very
> > mixed reviews.  We appreciate that you might need handholding.  So if
> > you get confused, or into trouble, do consult.
> 
> So one thing I found very handy with hg was that there was a
> single line history with easy to look at changeset numbers. Is there
> any way to achieve the same with git? I'm asking particularly in the
> context of backporting: In order to pick changes from unstable (now
> master), so far I simply scanned the history, tracking (on a sheet of
> paper) at which c/s I last left off.

Something like git log --oneline?

You can also git log --pretty=format:%...

Where there are various available %foo described in the manpage.

git doesn't really have a concept of the shorter sequential numbers
which mercurial has. The closest I can think of is the sort of thing
which git describe outputs.

Ian.


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