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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: feature request: git-log should accept sth like v2.6.26-rc8-227
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:52:18 -0700
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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.