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From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add git-name-rev
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:36:25 +0200
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Dear diary, on Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 01:05:59AM CEST, I got a letter
where Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> told me that...
> git-name-rev tries to find nice symbolic names for commits. It does so by 
> walking the commits from the refs. When the symbolic name is ambiguous, 
> the following heuristic is applied: Try to avoid too many ~'s, and if two 
> ambiguous names have the same count of ~'s, take the one whose last number 
> is smaller.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>

I think you should either add this to git-findtags.perl or (better) add
git-findtags.perl's functionality (i.e. a switch to search only in the
tags) to this and obsolete/kill git-findtags.perl. It is pretty new
(from Oct 13) so killing it shouldn't break anything.

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