From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: "Jakub Narebski" <jnareb@gmail.com>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gitweb, updating 'last changed' column on the project page
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:10:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e4733910711100610y478c62cend1d9af84e0ecc08b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711101427.18215.jnareb@gmail.com>
On 11/10/07, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It is sorted by committerdate, the sort is ascending. Did you expect
> > it to be descending, pick off the last entry instead of the first?
>
> Excerpts from git-for-each-ref(1):
>
> git-for-each-ref [--count=<count>]* (...) [--sort=<key>]* (...)
>
> <count>
> By default the command shows all refs that match <pattern>. This
> option makes it stop after showing that many refs.
>
> <key> A field name to sort on. Prefix - to sort in descending order of the
> value. When unspecified, refname is used. More than one sort keys
> can be given.
>
> So I expect --sort=-committerdate to sort by date of committing,
> descending, and --count=1 pick first one, which means most recent.
git has a bug, it is not implementing the - prefix. I am using git head.
jonsmirl@terra:~$ cd mpc5200b
jonsmirl@terra:~/mpc5200b$ git for-each-ref
--format="%(refname):%09%(committer)" --sort=-committerdate refs/heads
refs/heads/m24: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> 1191362799 -0400
refs/heads/m25: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> 1191472422 -0400
refs/heads/m26: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> 1194382038 -0500
refs/heads/m28: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> 1194385071 -0500
refs/heads/m29: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> 1194674673 -0500
jonsmirl@terra:~/mpc5200b$ git for-each-ref
--format="%(refname):%09%(committer)" --sort=committerdate refs/heads
refs/heads/m24: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> 1191362799 -0400
refs/heads/m25: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> 1191472422 -0400
refs/heads/m26: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> 1194382038 -0500
refs/heads/m28: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> 1194385071 -0500
refs/heads/m29: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> 1194674673 -0500
jonsmirl@terra:~/mpc5200b$ git --version
git version 1.5.3.5.1651.g30bf
jonsmirl@terra:~/mpc5200b$
>
> It looks like "your" gitweb sorts ascending instead... strange...
>
>
> How does git_get_last_activity subroutine in your gitweb.cgi looks like?
> Does it have '--sort=-commiterdate'? If it has, then I think it is some
> strange bug in git, if it doesn't it is strange modification of gitweb.
>
> HTH
> --
> Jakub Narebski
> Poland
>
--
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-10 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-10 1:09 gitweb, updating 'last changed' column on the project page Jon Smirl
2007-11-10 1:58 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-10 6:01 ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-10 6:10 ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-10 9:34 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-10 13:05 ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-10 13:27 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-10 14:10 ` Jon Smirl [this message]
2007-11-10 16:07 ` [PATCH] for-each-ref: fix setup of option-parsing for --sort Lars Hjemli
2007-11-10 16:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
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