Re: [PATCH 2/3] sh-setup: add new peel_committish() helper

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Jun 14, 2013, 16:44 UTC
Message-ID: <02E12EC628804EACABF52ACDFE2BDCF4@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0kCOJTRTQ-eKbOUnD18xWFqMnYi385aN=+_H4CoLZSLhQ@mail.gmail.com>

From: "Ramkumar Ramachandra" <artagnon@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 5:18 PM

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> Philip Oakley wrote:
>> Is there a proper name for this style of revision specification? I've 
>> been
>> letting this 'style' wash over me in the hope that I'd understand
>> eventually, but it hasn't.
>
> See gitrevisions(7).  None of them have any names.

... which is a shame...

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>> Loking at git-rev-parse I now see that it might be the 'Commit 
>> Message
>> Regex' rev specifier.
>
> Did you just invent that term?  I couldn't find any mentions of it.

Yep, hence the 'it might be'. Maybe I missed a word and should have written 'it might be called' ;-)

It would be useful to have some descriptive names for these unusual (uncommon) methods. There's already the "pathspec :(glob) syntax".

Philip