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Re: [Feature request] "Hooks" for git log

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KTKonstantin Tokarev <annulen@yandex.ru>
Date
Mar 12, 2020, 19:08 UTC
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12.03.2020, 21:58, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>:
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> Konstantin Tokarev <annulen@yandex.ru> writes:
>
>>  I think it would be very useful if git log provided new option named e.g.
>>  --hook or --script, which would take script path as an argument.
>>  git log would follow it's normal way of operation, applying other filtering
>>  options it was given, however intstead of printing info on commit that
>>  matches filters, it invokes script with commit hash as an argument.
>>  Script can do whatever it needs with hash, including any git operations,
>>  can print commit info to log if needed, or print something else, or keep
>>  silence. If script returns non-zero, parent git log command terminates,
>>  otherwise it continues.
>
> You do not need a hook for that, no?
>
>  $ git log --format='%H' ...your other options here... |
>    while read commit
>    do
>         ... your "hook" that checks the $commit to see if
>         ... it is "interesting" and shows or discard or whatever
>         ... it does comes here
>    done

When pager is in use, git log loads commits lazily when you scroll down. I find this feature rather crucial for working with any long history, and I don't see how to achieve this with pipe.

-- 
Regards,
Konstantin
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