Re: [PATCH 0/2] [RFD] Using gitrevisions :/search style with other operators

From: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date: Dec 10, 2010, 21:21 UTC
Message-ID: <66D6F30D-4707-4057-BB46-57B2DF01F479@sb.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101210190332.GA6210@burratino>

On Dec 10, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> - What is the intended use for this family of modifiers?  I sort
>   of understand ^{:i/... } for people that forget what case they
>   have used, but why the :nth and others?

In my particular case, I was glancing through the logs, and I wanted to grab the second branch that someone else had made that was merged into pu. I would have loved to be able to run something like

  git merge origin/pu^{:nth(2)/nd/}

While we're speaking of modifiers, could we use one that says "only search the first parent hierarchy", e.g. something equivalent to git log's --first-parent flag?

-Kevin Ballard