From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: feature request: git-log should accept sth like v2.6.26-rc8-227 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:47:37 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <200807102057.15063.toralf.foerster@gmx.de> <7vk5ftpnek.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v8ww9pkv8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vk5ftnyhp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Jakub Narebski , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Toralf_F=F6rster?= , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jul 11 01:48:19 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KH5s3-0002p7-6c for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:48:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751934AbYGJXrU (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:47:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752089AbYGJXrU (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:47:20 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:43892 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751559AbYGJXrT (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:47:19 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 10 Jul 2008 23:47:17 -0000 Received: from 88-107-253-132.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com (EHLO eeepc-johanness.st-andrews.ac.uk) [88.107.253.132] by mail.gmx.net (mp049) with SMTP; 11 Jul 2008 01:47:17 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/5j6JP6Jz5Y1vK0BFCxcDgG/69YQDFXnh+kuDAtI 36r5flubiqrH7e X-X-Sender: user@eeepc-johanness In-Reply-To: <7vk5ftnyhp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.66 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin writes: > > > On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > >> Jakub Narebski 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. Right. Judging from some of the conversations on IRC (and even on this list), it seems that the word "local" for the reflogs is lost on some, and there is no reason to expect otherwise for the currently proposed thing. So strike my suggestions, Dscho