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For some reason, I ended up doing git show HEAD~5.. as an odd way of asking for a log. I realize I should just have used "git log", but at the same time it does make perfect conceptual sense. After all, you _could_ have done git show HEAD HEAD~1 HEAD~2 HEAD~3 HEAD~4 and saying "git show HEAD~5.." is pretty natural. It's not like "git show" only ever showed a single commit (or other object) before either! So conceptually, giving a commit range is a very sensible operation, even though you'd traditionally have used "git log" for that. However, doing that currently results in an error fatal: object ranges do not make sense when not walking revisions which admittedly _also_ makes perfect sense - from an internal git implementation standpoint in 'revision.c'. However, I think that asking to show a range makes sense to a user, while saying "object ranges no not make sense when not walking revisions" only makes sense to a git developer. So on the whole, of the two different "makes perfect sense" behaviors, I think I originally picked the wrong one. And quite frankly, I don't really see anybody actually _depending_ on that error case. So why not change it? So rather than error out, just turn that non-walking error case into a "silently turn on walking" instead. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>maint


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