Re: feature request: git-log should accept sth like v2.6.26-rc8-227
- From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Jul 10, 2008, 22:52 UTC
- Message-ID
- <7vk5ftnyhp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
- In-Reply-To
- <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807110022510.3279@eeepc-johanness>
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
Show 12 quoted lines
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > Besides, it would be nice to have some command (git-rev-parse >> > perhaps?) which could take ambiguous commit-ish, and list all commit >> > which matches it. >> >> Have fun writing it and send in a patch. > > Note that this really could be a patch, but not for rev-parse. Patch > revision.c instead to parse the argument into _all_ matching revisions.
As Linus pointed out, that is "all _locally_ matching revisions". It is of dubious value in a distributed environment.