From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:08:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Extending the shelf life of "git describe" output
Message-ID: <7vfw9qyk6m.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <877gv34vtg.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

> Two random thoughts:
>
> * The commit_only flag is only one thing you may "know" about the
>   parsing, as you state above.  E.g., we may know the distance from a
>   certain tag.  Given this, wouldn't it be cleaner to patch a struct
>   things_we_know into the call chain instead of only a flag?
>
> * The treeish:path syntax also "knows" that the left side must be or
>   peel to a tree, so it makes no sense to go looking for a blob.

Both good.  I take it to mean that we found a volunteer to take the
ownership of the second idea to build on top of the series ;-)

Thanks.