On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
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> 
> I use it to spit out a patch for a specific commit:
> 
> 	git-diff-tree -p $COMMIT

Use

	git show $COMMIT

instead, which is shorter and gives you the log too, and uses a pager by 
default. And defaults to HEAD, so you don't even need to say $COMMIT if 
you want to see the top one. IOW, much nicer is so many ways.

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".

But at least personally, I really don't know when I last wanted to have 
anything else than 'git show' for showing a commit.

			Linus
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