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Subject: Re: [RFC] Using gitrevisions :/search style with other operators
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On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 07:59:03AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > It seems to me the natural way to do that would be to use our existing
> > generic "start at this ref and follow some chain" syntax, which is
> > ref^{foo}. For example: origin/pu^{:Merge 'kb/blame-author-email'}.
> 
> Yeah, that may make more sense but I think the operation specifier should
> be '/', not ':', no?

Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote the text above. It
should definitely be origin/pu^{/Merge...}.

-Peff