Re: [PATCH] object name: introduce ':::<oneline prefix>' notation

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 24, 2007, 01:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20070224011214.GA8369@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702232347310.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:48:38PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> > To name a commit, you can now say
> > 
> > 	git rev-parse ':::Initial revision of "git"'
> 
> Alex Riesen and Shawn Pearce suggested ":/" instead of ":::", to reflect 
> the searching nature ("/" is the key to search in "less" output).

Is there a particular argument for using a special syntax in the commit argument? Why not just add a '--grep' or similar option to indicate that we will be grepping the commits logs?

-Peff