[racket-dev] "~e" vs "~.s"

On Aug 25, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> [...]  If I touched your code, it would be a good idea to check that
> I did the right thing.

A git tip, to make this easier: you don't need to look throughout the
diff of the whole push -- that has too many changes in many cases
(including this).  To conveniently see just one commit, you can use
`git show' with the commit's id:

  git show 606b7f6

Even that would be too verbose to sift through, but git can filter
only a subset of the tree.  For example:

  git show 606b7f6 -- collects/drracket

or filter on several using using shell tricks:

  git show 606b7f6 -- collects/{drracket,framework}

and you can also cd into the directory and run the command there with
a `--relative' flag that will show only the changes in this directory
(and relative to it):

  cd collects/drracket; git show 606b7f6 --relative

To see the files that were changed in this commit (so you can see what
to choose for filtering):

  git show --name-only 606b7f6

or get the same with stats that tell you how much was changed:

  git show --stat 606b7f6

or to see roughly which parts of the tree a commit was touching:

  git show --dirstat 606b7f6

(this is rough, since it shows just directories where many changes
happened, for example, this comman won't show you the change to
collects/unstable since there was only one file).

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