From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:18:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Subversion-style incrementing revision numbers
Message-ID: <20060919221857.GB11601@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <eeppkl$rm9$2@sea.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, one cannot (as of now) use result of git-describe as
> <commit-ish>. I'd rather have it fixed, than port idea from _centralized_
> SCM do distributed SCM.

This doesn't work?

	git log $(git describe | cut -d- -f2 | sed 's/^g//')

Its obviously so clear and easy to type!  :-)

That should be pretty easy to teach sha1_name.c:get_sha1_basic to
look for the pattern commonly used by git-describe, break on "-g",
verify the tag, then unabbreviate the ID.

-- 
Shawn.