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authorToon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>2026-01-20 22:47:11 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2026-01-20 14:13:04 -0800
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last-modified: change default max-depth to 0
By default git-last-modified(1) doesn't recurse into subtrees. So when the pathspec contained a path in a subtree, the command would only print the commit information about the parent tree of the path, like: $ git last-modified -- path/file aaa0aab1bbb2bcc3ccc4ddd5dde6eee7eff8fff9 path Change the default behavior to give commit information about the exact path instead: $ git last-modified -- path/file aaa0aab1bbb2bcc3ccc4ddd5dde6eee7eff8fff9 path/file To achieve this, the default max-depth is changed to 0 and recursive is always enabled. The handling of option '-r' is modified to disable a max-depth, resulting in the behavior of this option to remain unchanged. No existing tests were modified, because there didn't exist any tests covering the example above. But more tests are added to cover this now. Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -25,13 +25,14 @@ OPTIONS
`-r`::
`--recursive`::
- Instead of showing tree entries, step into subtrees and show all entries
- inside them recursively.
+ Recursively traverse into all subtrees. By default, the command only
+ shows tree entries matching the `<pathspec>`. With this option, it
+ descends into subtrees and displays all entries within them.
+ Equivalent to `--max-depth=-1`.
`-t`::
`--show-trees`::
- Show tree entries even when recursing into them. It has no effect
- without `--recursive`.
+ Show tree entries even when recursing into them.
`--max-depth=<depth>`::
For each pathspec given on the command line, traverse at most `<depth>`