Re: feature request: git-log should accept sth like v2.6.26-rc8-227
At Friday 11 July 2008 16:36:07 Johannes Schindelin wrote :
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> The question is not so much if it would work, but what people would do
> with this. They would probably include something in a mail to you like
> "v2.6.26-rc9-111 stopped working!", you would test "v2.6.26-rc9-111" and
> go back "but it still works!".
>
> Because you are talking about two different things.
>
> So, in what workflow would v2.6.26-rc9-111 actually be helpful? For
> yourself working in your own lil' branch? I do not think so. HEAD~23 is
> much more helpful in that case, since locally, you do not work so much
> relative to a given tag, but relative to your current HEAD.
>
> Hth,
> Dscho
Ah yes, this clarified it for me.
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