Re: Quickly searching for a note

[Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Junio C Hamano
Date: 9/21/2012 2:04 PM
> Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com> writes:
>
>>> Is there any particular reason you do that as two separate steps?
>>> It would feel more natural, at least to me, to do something along
>>> the lines of
>>>
>>> 	git log --show-notes=p4notes -1000
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> I did not make clear above that I want to stop looking when I find the
>> first commit that has the note.
>>
>> In the case of 'git log --show-notes=p4notes -1000', Git will process
>> and hand me the log output for 1,000 commits.  It is rare I need to
>> walk that deep.
> I simply matched it with your initial "rev-list --max-count=1000".
> The "log" command pages and you can hit 'q' once you saw enough (in
> other words, you do not have to say -1000).
>
This is run via script without user intervention.  Presumably, Git will 
do 1,000 commits of work when it may only need to do 1 or 5 or 10?

-Josh