Re: [PATCH v3] object-name: fix reversed ordering with ":/<PATTERN>" revisions

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Dec 7, 2024, 15:51 UTC
Message-ID: <3ef4f213-a49e-4d72-8f45-00a5fa030852@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20241206-pks-rev-parse-fix-reversed-list-v3-1-d934c17db168@pks.im>

Just bringing up this nitpick in case you decide to make a v4 based on Justin’s reply in this thread.

On Fri, Dec 6, 2024, at 16:45, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

> Recently it was reported [1] that "look for the youngest reachable
> commit with log message that match the given pattern" syntax (e.g.
> ':/<PATTERN>') started to return results in reverse recency order. This

This isn’t “e.g. ':/<PATTERN>'” any more since you are not listing examples. “i.e.” perhaps?

But it’s clear what you mean from the context anyway.