From: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:44:27 GMT
Subject: Re: feature request: git-log should accept sth like v2.6.26-rc8-227
Message-ID: <200807111644.30486.toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807111533310.8950@racer>

At Friday 11 July 2008 16:36:07 Johannes Schindelin wrote :

> 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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