From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <junio@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout: implement "-" shortcut name for last branch
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:01:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901151501.26394.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901150141570.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
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Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Thomas Rast wrote:
>
> > Let git-checkout save the old branch as a symref in LAST_HEAD, and
> > make 'git checkout -' switch back to LAST_HEAD, like 'cd -' does in
> > the shell.
>
> Actually, what you want is in the reflog, no? So... parsing
> .git/logs/HEAD for the latest occurrence of "checkout: moving from " and
> then using everything up until the next space should give you the branch
> name, right?
It just feels wrong to grab that information from there; it's a
free-form comment field for user consumption. And it wasn't even that
hard to implement a LAST_HEAD.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-15 0:06 [PATCH] checkout: implement "-" shortcut name for last branch Thomas Rast
2009-01-15 0:12 ` [PATCH v2] " Thomas Rast
2009-01-15 7:27 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-01-15 13:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-15 13:59 ` Thomas Rast
2009-01-15 14:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-15 14:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-15 20:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-15 20:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-16 12:52 ` [PATCH] revision walker: include a detached HEAD in --all Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-16 13:12 ` Santi Béjar
2009-01-16 13:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-16 13:22 ` David Kastrup
2009-01-16 13:46 ` Santi Béjar
2009-01-16 13:50 ` Santi Béjar
2009-01-18 6:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-18 6:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-18 14:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-18 13:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-15 16:32 ` [PATCH v2] checkout: implement "-" shortcut name for last branch Johan Herland
2009-01-15 16:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-15 20:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-15 20:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-17 3:30 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 0/6] N-th last checked out branch Thomas Rast
2009-01-17 5:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-17 13:38 ` Thomas Rast
2009-01-17 13:40 ` [PATCH/RFC v3bis 1/2] sha1_name: implement @{-N} syntax for N-th last checked out Thomas Rast
2009-01-17 13:40 ` [PATCH/RFC v3bis 2/2] checkout: implement '@{-N}' and '-' special abbreviations Thomas Rast
2009-01-17 15:04 ` [PATCH] interpret_nth_last_branch(): avoid traversing the reflogs twice Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-17 16:09 ` [PATCH/RFC v4 0/5] N-th last checked out branch Thomas Rast
2009-01-17 16:09 ` [PATCH/RFC v4 1/5] checkout: implement "@{-N}" shortcut name for N-th last branch Thomas Rast
2009-01-17 16:09 ` [PATCH/RFC v4 2/5] sha1_name: tweak @{-N} lookup Thomas Rast
2009-01-17 16:09 ` [PATCH/RFC v4 3/5] sha1_name: support @{-N} syntax in get_sha1() Thomas Rast
2009-01-17 16:09 ` [PATCH/RFC v4 4/5] checkout: implement "-" abbreviation, add docs and tests Thomas Rast
2009-01-17 16:09 ` [PATCH/RFC v4 5/5] interpret_nth_last_branch(): avoid traversing the reflogs twice Thomas Rast
2009-01-17 18:08 ` [PATCH 6/5] Fix parsing of @{-1}@{1} Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-17 20:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-17 21:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-17 19:57 ` [PATCH/RFC v4 4/5] checkout: implement "-" abbreviation, add docs and tests Junio C Hamano
2009-01-17 17:55 ` [PATCH/RFC v4 3/5] sha1_name: support @{-N} syntax in get_sha1() Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-17 19:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-18 0:54 ` [PATCH/RFC v4 2/5] sha1_name: tweak @{-N} lookup Junio C Hamano
2009-01-17 16:49 ` [PATCH/RFC v4 0/5] N-th last checked out branch Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-17 19:13 ` [PATCH] interpret_nth_last_branch(): avoid traversing the reflogs twice Junio C Hamano
2009-01-17 19:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-18 0:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-18 1:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-18 7:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-18 20:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-19 8:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-19 8:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-19 12:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-20 0:11 ` Thomas Rast
2009-01-20 0:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-20 0:41 ` Thomas Rast
2009-01-20 6:21 ` [PATCH] interpret_nth_last_branch(): plug small memleak Junio C Hamano
2009-01-20 10:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-20 6:22 ` [PATCH] Introduce for_each_recent_reflog_ent() Junio C Hamano
2009-01-20 10:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-20 8:35 ` [PATCH] interpret_nth_last_branch(): avoid traversing the reflogs twice Junio C Hamano
2009-01-21 0:16 ` [VALGRIND PATCH for nth_last patch series] Fix invalid memory access Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-21 8:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-21 9:18 ` Thomas Rast
2009-01-21 10:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-21 12:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-24 22:21 ` Thomas Rast
2009-01-24 22:23 ` [PATCH next] t1505: remove debugging cruft Thomas Rast
2009-01-25 20:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-21 11:56 ` [VALGRIND PATCH for nth_last patch series] Fix invalid memory access Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-19 12:41 ` [PATCH] @{-<n>}: avoid crash with corrupt reflog Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-19 14:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-17 3:30 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 1/6] reflog: refactor parsing and checking Thomas Rast
2009-01-17 5:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-17 3:30 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 2/6] reflog: refactor log open+mmap Thomas Rast
2009-01-17 5:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-17 3:30 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 3/6] reflog: make for_each_reflog_ent use mmap Thomas Rast
2009-01-17 3:30 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 4/6] reflog: add backwards iterator Thomas Rast
2009-01-17 3:30 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 5/6] sha1_name: implement @{-N} syntax for N-th last checked out Thomas Rast
2009-01-17 3:30 ` [PATCH/RFC v3 6/6] checkout: implement '@{-N}' and '-' special abbreviations Thomas Rast
2009-01-16 12:31 ` [PATCH v2] checkout: implement "-" shortcut name for last branch Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-15 0:45 ` [PATCH] " Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-15 14:01 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2009-01-15 14:14 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-15 17:05 ` Thomas Rast
2009-01-15 18:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-16 9:08 ` Thomas Rast
2009-01-16 11:18 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-18 1:38 ` [TOY PATCH] git-resurrect: find traces of a branch name and resurrect it Thomas Rast
2009-01-18 16:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-20 9:01 ` Thomas Rast
2009-01-20 16:57 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2009-01-20 20:50 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2009-01-23 20:03 ` [PATCH] contrib " Thomas Rast
2009-01-23 21:00 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2009-01-26 11:54 ` Thomas Rast
2009-01-26 12:40 ` [PATCH v2] " Thomas Rast
2009-01-27 6:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-30 22:52 ` Thomas Rast
2009-02-01 21:34 ` [PATCH v3] " Thomas Rast
2009-02-02 2:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-04 10:04 ` [PATCH v4] " Thomas Rast
2009-02-05 8:38 ` Junio C Hamano
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