Ok, now I'm happier.

Functions that do many things are bad. We should basically
just parse the arguments in main(). We're not quite there
yet, but it's a step in the right direction.

That pretty-prints the resulting commit messages, so

	git-rev-list --pretty HEAD v2.6.12-rc5 | less -S

basically ends up being a log of the changes between -rc5
and current head.

It uses the pretty-printing helper function I just extracted
from diff-tree.c.

It makes rev-list show the list of parents, the same
way git-rev-tree does (but without the expense).

This mean sthat you can give a beginning/end pair to git-rev-list,
and it will show all entries that are reachable from the beginning
but not the end.

For example

	git-rev-list v2.6.12-rc5 v2.6.12-rc4

shows all commits that are in -rc5 but are not in -rc4.

The "end" commit is just faking it right now, it's sorting things
purely by date, so this is _not_ a reachability analysis. Some day.

The "--header" flag causes the commit message to be printed out,
with a NUL character separator after it for parseability. This
allows you to do things like use "grep -z" to grep for certain
authors etc.

Fixes all in-code names that leaved during "big name change".
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Nezhdanov <snake@penza-gsm.ru>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

gitweb.cgi's default view is the log of the last day and git-rev-list
can stop crawling the whole repo if we have all our data to display in the
browser. Also the rss-feed query needs only the last 20 items. This
will speeds up these queries dramatically.

  usage: rev-list [OPTION] commit-id
    --max-count=nr
    --max-age=epoch
    --min-age=epoch
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This allows the programs to use various simplified versions of
the SHA1 names, eg just say "HEAD" for the SHA1 pointed to by
the .git/HEAD file etc.

For example, this commit has been done with

	git-commit-tree $(git-write-tree) -p HEAD

instead of the traditional "$(cat .git/HEAD)" syntax.

Make pop_most_recent_commit() return the same objects multiple times, but only
if called with different bits to mark.

This is necessary to make merge-base work again.
Signed-Off-By: NDaniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This is probably what you'd want to see for "git log".