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Re: (unknown)

From
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Oct 25, 2006, 22:16 UTC
Message-ID
<20061025221659.GC10140@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To
<200610252303.07900.andyparkins@gmail.com>
Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wednesday 2006, October 25 19:38, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > > I did try that, but then the branches don't appear in git branch.  I
> > > still like that they exist.
> >
> > "git branch -r" perhaps.
> 
> That's pretty good.  It makes things like
> 
>   git-log remotes/origin/master..master
> 
> A bit long winded, but it's certainly what I asked for.
> 
> You guys really have thought of everything.

Try the bash completion support in contrib/completion. If you are using the bash shell it does branch name completions for most commands, including both sides of the '..' in log there. At this point I can't use Git without it.

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Message 14 of 14 in “(unknown)”
  1. andyparkins@gmail.comOct 25, 2006
  2. Jakub NarebskiOct 25, 2006
  3. Andy ParkinsOct 25, 2006
  4. Karl HasselströmOct 25, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoOct 25, 2006
  6. Andy ParkinsOct 25, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoOct 25, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 25, 2006
  9. Andy ParkinsOct 26, 2006
  10. Documentation: clarify refname disambiguation rules.Junio C Hamano, Oct 26, 2006
  11. Jakub NarebskiOct 26, 2006
  12. Josef WeidendorferOct 26, 2006
  13. Linus TorvaldsOct 26, 2006
  14. Shawn PearceOct 25, 2006

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