From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:00:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] name-rev: introduce the --ref-filter=<pattern> option
Message-ID: <7v3b54txrk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702171921130.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Instead of (or, in addition to) --tags, to use only tags for naming,
> you can now use --ref-filter=<patter> to specify a shell pattern
> which the refs must match to be used for naming.
>
> Example:
>
> 	$ git name-rev --ref-filter=*v1* 33db5f4d
> 	33db5f4d tags/v1.0rc1^0~1593
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>

Thanks.  It's a bit counterintuitive that the first asterisk in
your example "*v1*" matches something that contains a slash, but
at least the patch makes it usable for me.

By the way, v1.0rc1^0~1593 is the same as v1.0rc1~1593.
Technically, the latter loses the information that the starting
ref is a tag, but I wonder if it is worth keeping that
information at the expense of (slightly) uglier output.