From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:39:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Fix notes handling in rev-list
Message-ID: <7vhat4wv6h.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120718072104.GB12942@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> So leaving aside the --graph issues, we would need to decide what to
> show in the non-graph case. And I think your suggestion is good; there
> is no real need to dereference the blob (if you want that, you can turn
> on the pretty-printer).
>
> I'm just not sure what the output should be. I guess:
>
>   <commit_sha1> <notes sha1s>
>
> is probably the most sensible (it's sort of like --parents). And that
> solves the --graph issue, too, since it continues to take only a single
> line.

Surely.  "rev-list --parents --notes" would still be usable that
way, as a reader that requests such a combination is prepared to
tell commits (i.e. parents) and blobs (i.e. notes) apart.