From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
"Toralf Förster" <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: feature request: git-log should accept sth like v2.6.26-rc8-227
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:08:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807110108.45072.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vk5ftnyhp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Besides, it would be nice to have some command (git-rev-parse
>>>> perhaps?) which could take ambiguous commit-ish, and list all commit
>>>> which matches it.
>>>
>>> Have fun writing it and send in a patch.
>>
>> Note that this really could be a patch, but not for rev-parse. Patch
>> revision.c instead to parse the argument into _all_ matching revisions.
>
> As Linus pointed out, that is "all _locally_ matching revisions". It is
> of dubious value in a distributed environment.
It can be useful for example in situation where shortened sha-1 of
a commit (for example to 6 characters) stops being ambiguous...
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-10 23:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-10 18:57 feature request: git-log should accept sth like v2.6.26-rc8-227 Toralf Förster
2008-07-10 19:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-10 19:42 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-10 19:52 ` Toralf Förster
2008-07-10 20:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-10 22:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-10 22:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-10 23:08 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2008-07-10 23:47 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-10 20:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-10 19:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-11 13:39 ` Toralf Förster
2008-07-11 14:36 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-11 14:44 ` Toralf Förster
2008-07-11 14:44 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-07-11 14:58 ` Toralf Förster
2008-07-11 19:29 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-07-11 19:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-11 20:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
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