From: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:34:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Quickly searching for a note
Message-ID: <505CB337.706@workspacewhiz.com>
In-Reply-To: <m2d31fbedd.fsf@igel.home>

----- Original Message -----
From: Andreas Schwab
Date: 9/21/2012 9:10 AM
> Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com> writes:
>
>> Background: To tie Perforce changelists to Git commits, I add a note to a
>> commit with the form "P4@123456".  Later, I use the note to sync down the
>> closest Perforce changelist matching the Git commit.
>>
>> I search for these notes by getting a list of revisions:
>>
>>          git rev-list --max-count=1000
>>
>> I iterate those revisions and run git show and grep on each:
>>
>>          git show -s --format=%N%n%s --show-notes=p4notes COMMIT
> How about "git grep P4@123456 notes/p4notes"?
>
> Andreas.
>
Thanks for the reply.

I should have labeled the format above as "P4@#######".  The numeric 
part will change.  The "P4@" will not.

So, I run "git grep P4@ notes/p4notes".  I get a bunch of responses.  I 
need the closest commit to HEAD that contains the P4@ text.

Any ideas?

-Josh