Re: [PATCH] Add git-name-rev

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Oct 26, 2005, 08:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20051026083625.GD30889@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510260103570.27364@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Dear diary, on Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 01:05:59AM CEST, I got a letter where Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> told me that...

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> git-name-rev tries to find nice symbolic names for commits. It does so by 
> walking the commits from the refs. When the symbolic name is ambiguous, 
> the following heuristic is applied: Try to avoid too many ~'s, and if two 
> ambiguous names have the same count of ~'s, take the one whose last number 
> is smaller.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>

I think you should either add this to git-findtags.perl or (better) add git-findtags.perl's functionality (i.e. a switch to search only in the tags) to this and obsolete/kill git-findtags.perl. It is pretty new (from Oct 13) so killing it shouldn't break anything.

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