From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:55:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Feature suggestion: git-hist
Message-ID: <20080730145534.GD32057@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080730155835.71289eee@pc09.procura.nl>

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 03:58:35PM +0200, "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> We are not used to working with $SHA's, and IMHO from the end-user pov,
> a $SHA is less user friendly than a release number or a file version. I
> can remember a version, but I cannot remember a SHA.

But a version is never unique in a distributed environment. So a version
is useless without at least an abbreviated hash.

If pure hashes are not friendly enough, you can use something like:

git describe $(git rev-list -1 HEAD -- <file>)

to get the _hash_ of the _commit_ (ie. not the version of a file) that
touched the file last time.