From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 09:25:24 GMT
Subject: Re: Gitk feature - show nearby tags
Message-ID: <7vk67xclx7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <e5bfff550606040008m4dbf02bdga4f4e6bc2d2fe9d@mail.gmail.com>

"Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:

> What you suggest we need it's a kind of history of tags.

I do not understand what you mean by "history of tags".  Are you
talking about "tag v1.0.0 was pointing at X commit yesterday but
now today it points at Y commit"?

> And, according to Paul suggestions, not only tags, but merge revisions
> between tags.
>
> A more general and IMHO very powerful tool could be something like
>
> git-rev-list --top-order --parents --selected-only HEAD -- <sha 1>
> <sha 2> .....  <sha n>
>
> Where git rev list gives the history, with modified parents, of the
> given revisions _only_ plus the merging revisions among them.

You completely lost me here.  The '--' markers are to mean "from
here on the parameters are not revisions but are path limiters",
so you are doing something else.  What are these <sha1#1>, <sha1#2>,...
in this?  Are they revisions (i.e. commit object names)?