Re: [PATCH] Teach the git wrapper about --name-rev and --name-rev-by-tags

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> Now you can say
> 
> 	git --name-rev log

I think this is wrong.

It may be a straightforward translation of

> 	git log | git name-rev --stdin | less

but that doesn't make it any more "correct".

>From a logical standpoint, it should be an argument to the _logging_, not 
to the main git binary, so it should be

	git log --name-rev

and you should do the parsing (and the output) inside revision.c.

Also, I doubt most people want every release named. I think the common 
case would be that you want those releases named that match heads (and 
tags in particular) _exactly_. If you want everything named, maybe you 
want to do "--name-rev-all" or something.

Hmm?

(That would also likely perform a lot better)

		Linus