From: Petr Baudis Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:36:25 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add git-name-rev Message-ID: <20051026083625.GD30889@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: Dear diary, on Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 01:05:59AM CEST, I got a letter where Johannes Schindelin told me that... > 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 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. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.