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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Toralf Förster" <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: feature request: git-log should accept sth like v2.6.26-rc8-227
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:42:53 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3d4lledbn.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vk5ftpnek.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > git-describe gives an informative string about the current status:
> > tfoerste@n22 ~/devel/linux-2.6 $ git describe
> > v2.6.26-rc9-56-g6329d30
> >
> > I appended those strings to the names of my UML kernel executables.
> > Unfortunately I didn't used the commit id and now I'm wondering whether git
> > could accept v2.6.26-rc9-56 as well in future.
> 
> It does take v2.6.26-rc9-56-g6329d30.
> 
> It will never take v2.6.26-rc9-56.  The world is not linear.

Nevertheless it _could_ be unique.

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.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-10 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-10 18:57 feature request: git-log should accept sth like v2.6.26-rc8-227 Toralf Förster
2008-07-10 19:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-10 19:42   ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2008-07-10 19:52     ` Toralf Förster
2008-07-10 20:03     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-10 22:24       ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-10 22:52         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-10 23:08           ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-10 23:47           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-10 20:36     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-10 19:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-11 13:39   ` Toralf Förster
2008-07-11 14:36     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-11 14:44       ` Toralf Förster
2008-07-11 14:44     ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-07-11 14:58       ` Toralf Förster
2008-07-11 19:29         ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-07-11 19:57           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-11 20:35             ` Johannes Schindelin

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