Re: [irq/urgent]: created 3786fc7: "irq: make variable static"

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:

> Git recently started printing the branch name when creating commits:
> 
>   [irq/urgent]: created 3786fc7: "irq: make variable static"
> 
> very nice idea IMO! Having it all on one line allows me to double-check 
> that i indeed queued up a patch in the intended topic branch. Had it 
> read:
> 
>   [irq/urgent]: created 3786fc7: "printk: make variable static"
> 
> i'd have noticed the mistake immediately.
> 
> this welcome enhancement made me remember of three usage problems i had 
> with Git recently:
[...]

About printing either forward (git-describe, e.g. v1.6.0.2-590-g67f6062)
or backward (git-name-rev, e.g. tags/v1.6.0-rc2~8): you can use
git-name-rev in filter mode (git log ... | git name-rev --stdin), or
"git log --decorate", or '%d' in --pretty format specifier (this is very
new thing).

You might be also interested in --abbrev-commit (when used with
--pretty=oneline format), and --graph option to git-log (or
git-show-branch).  The "(--merged | --no-merged | --contains) [<commit>]"
options to git-branch might be also of interest...
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git