DWIM 'git show -5' to 'git show --do-walk -5'

To show the last two commits with one command, one might try

 1) git show -s master~2..
 2) git show -s ^master~2 master
 3) git show -s master^ master
 4) git show -s -2 master

Choice (3) works because both commits are listed on the command line.
Choices (1) and (2) have worked ever since v1.6.4-rc~3 (Make 'git
show' more useful, 2009-07-13) disabled --no-walk in this case because
there is no other useful meaning for them to have.  Unfortunately, (4)
does not work: it outputs only one commit, because --no-walk stays on.

So disable --no-walk in this case so ‘git show’ and future ‘git
cherry-pick’ can behave as expected.

As a side effect, this unfortunately changes the meaning of
‘git log --oneline --decorate --no-walk -5 --all’: instead of listing
five refs, after this patch that command would list the five most
recent commits.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index f4b8b38315..7b881a83fd 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -1063,18 +1063,22 @@ static int handle_revision_opt(struct rev_info *revs, int argc, const char **arg
 
 	if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--max-count=")) {
 		revs->max_count = atoi(arg + 12);
+		revs->no_walk = 0;
 	} else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--skip=")) {
 		revs->skip_count = atoi(arg + 7);
 	} else if ((*arg == '-') && isdigit(arg[1])) {
 	/* accept -<digit>, like traditional "head" */
 		revs->max_count = atoi(arg + 1);
+		revs->no_walk = 0;
 	} else if (!strcmp(arg, "-n")) {
 		if (argc <= 1)
 			return error("-n requires an argument");
 		revs->max_count = atoi(argv[1]);
+		revs->no_walk = 0;
 		return 2;
 	} else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "-n")) {
 		revs->max_count = atoi(arg + 2);
+		revs->no_walk = 0;
 	} else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--max-age=")) {
 		revs->max_age = atoi(arg + 10);
 	} else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--since=")) {