Re: feature request: git-log should accept sth like v2.6.26-rc8-227

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 10, 2008, 23:08 UTC
Message-ID: <200807110108.45072.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk5ftnyhp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Besides, it would be nice to have some command (git-rev-parse 
>>>> perhaps?) which could take ambiguous commit-ish, and list all commit 
>>>> which matches it.
>>> 
>>> Have fun writing it and send in a patch.
>>
>> Note that this really could be a patch, but not for rev-parse.  Patch 
>> revision.c instead to parse the argument into _all_ matching revisions.
> 
> As Linus pointed out, that is "all _locally_ matching revisions".  It is
> of dubious value in a distributed environment.

It can be useful for example in situation where shortened sha-1 of a commit (for example to 6 characters) stops being ambiguous...

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Jakub Narebski
Poland