Re: git-rev-list feature request

[Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>]

Linus Torvalds writes:

> Yeah. I _think_ what you want is
> 
>  - phase 1: generate the current graph that we already do for
> 
> 	git-rev-list --all ^cmit
> 
>  - phase 2: start at "cmit", and mark everything that refers to it as 
>    "show me" (including "cmit" itself, which was originally marked 
>    uninteresting)

I'm not sure if that's what I want.  Is that how "git-rev-list -- foo" 
works?

What I want is basically just what "git-rev-list -- foo" does, but
with some extra flexibility in choosing what commits are interesting -
that is, to be able to say that a commit is interesting if it affects
some file, has a reference under .git/refs, or if it is one of a set
of specified commits.

Paul.