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Re: [RFC] Using gitrevisions :/search style with other operators

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YDYann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr>
Date
Nov 10, 2010, 07:46 UTC
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On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:46:59 -0800 Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> wrote:

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> On Nov 9, 2010, at 11:32 PM, Yann Dirson wrote:
> 
> >> Another thing to consider - the current :/foo syntax searches for
> >> the newest commit reachable from any ref. Using the ^{} syntax will
> >> require specifying a ref first. I'm not sure this is a problem
> >> though, as I'm not really sure why :/foo searches from all refs to
> >> begin with.
> > 
> > The syntax could be extended so that ^{whatever} starts looking at
> > current commit (ie. HEAD), somewhat like @{whatever} looks at
> > reflog for current branch.
> 
> :/foo doesn't start from the current commit - it searches all refs.
> However, making ^{} search all refs if not given one doesn't make
> sense for any operator except :/foo, so I don't think it's worth doing

Yes, that's why I suggested to make it search from HEAD, not from all refs.

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Yann Dirson - Bertin Technologies
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Message 8 of 21 in “Re: [RFC] Using gitrevisions :/search style with other operators”
  1. Yann DirsonNov 9, 2010
  2. Kevin BallardNov 9, 2010
  3. Yann DirsonNov 9, 2010
  4. Junio C HamanoNov 10, 2010
  5. Kevin BallardNov 10, 2010
  6. Yann DirsonNov 10, 2010
  7. Kevin BallardNov 10, 2010
  8. Yann DirsonNov 10, 2010
  9. Jakub NarebskiNov 10, 2010
  10. get_sha1: support relative path "<obj>:<sth>" syntaxNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 10, 2010
  11. Matthieu MoyNov 10, 2010
  12. Jonathan NiederNov 10, 2010
  13. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyNov 11, 2010
  14. Junio C HamanoNov 10, 2010
  15. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyNov 11, 2010
  16. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2010
  17. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2010
  18. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyDec 10, 2010
  19. Junio C HamanoNov 10, 2010
  20. Jakub NarebskiNov 10, 2010
  21. Jeff KingNov 9, 2010

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