From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 08:48:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Teach name-rev to identify revisions containing a certain blob
Message-ID: <7vejonj1h3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vmz3bj248.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> [Footnote]
>
> *1* To find a revision that had a particular object at a known
> path, you should be able to do:
>
> 	git rev-list <starting refs> |
>       git diff-tree --stdin --raw -r -Z |
> 	grep -z that-object-name

Sheesh, please add "-- <path>" after "-Z".

>
> but an earlier commit abd4e222 needs to be further enhanced to
> add -Z option that means "output fields are not NUL terminated,
> output records are", which did not happen.