Re: [Feature request] Give non-unique names to commits for grouping

From: Konstantin Tokarev <annulen@yandex.ru>
Date: Mar 10, 2020, 23:21 UTC
Message-ID: <6552181583882319@iva1-398527a32f9a.qloud-c.yandex.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAGa6KtSgGOLVjHdubwRW=Bvnjnp2PoP7jJ5_NxNWGFLrVYT9SA@mail.gmail.com>

11.03.2020, 02:16, "Christos Pappas" <chrispappas99@gmail.com>:

Show 13 quoted lines

> Dear Git users,
>
> I suggest that we should have the option to mark each commit with a
> category name, that is not necessarily unique (like 'tags') so we
> could have commit groups.
> For example we could:
> git mark {commit_id} {name}
>
> Then we could give special functionality to some commands based on
> those "marks".
> For example if we had marked a few commits with the name 'fix_typo'
> git log --mark fix_typo. Show all the commits marked with 'fix_typo'
> git blame --mark fix_typo Run git blame but ignore commits with 'fix_typo'

Why not use git log --grep? It can give better results if someone accidentally forgets to use mark properly, but mentions keyword in the topic.

That said, it would be great if there was an easy way to use git log --grep with commit topics only (i.e., search only in the first line)

-- 
Regards,
Konstantin