Re: Do we have a convenient way to refer to a specific commit in an already filtered rev-list?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 27, 2011, 21:35 UTC
Message-ID: <20110927213517.GB5176@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAEvN+1jPD53-e8a31g+iz6vMB0-e2LECjouBELkBOXBV5=oGBg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:46:20AM +0800, Tzu-Jung Lee wrote:

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> Do we have a convenient/symbolic way to refer  to a specific commit of
> an already filtered rev-list? For example, I'm interested in the
> commits with some constraints:
> 
>     git log somepath --author=someone
> 
> Without gui/tui tools, I have to frequently CUT & PASTE the commit-ID
> for further manipulation (show, cherry-pick, ...), and possibly repeat
> the parsing couple of times if I didn't save the output. I wonder if
> we have a convenient way to refer to the discrete commits? like
> HEAD~4, HEAD@{3} or something magic.

Use the shell:

  git rev-list --author=someone HEAD >saved-query
  git log --no-walk --stdin <saved-query
  git cherry-pick `cat saved-query`

or even:

  q=`git rev-list --author=someone HEAD`
  git log --no-walk $q
  git cherry-pick $q

-Peff