From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:18:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Using gitrevisions :/search style with other operators
Message-ID: <7vlj52jakh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101109102428.5ba8dc13@chalon.bertin.fr>

Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr> writes:

>> > Syntax like origin/pu^{/Merge 'kb/blame-author-email'}2 would be
> ...
> Another idea: origin/pu^{:2/Merge 'kb/blame-author-email'}

What are these "2"s?

You need to question how you figured out the commit you want is the second
one reachable (in whatever traversal order) from something in the first
place.  Didn't you use "git log --oneline" or something to find that out?
At that point, you have the object name already, so I doubt such a
"counting" feature is of much practical use.