Re: [PATCH 2/2] Teach name-rev to identify revisions containing a certain blob

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 17, 2007, 18:24 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr6sotzft.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702171838510.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> If you want to know which revisions contained a certain version
> of a file, just say
>
> 	git name-rev --file <filename>
>
> which will read the file, and give you a list of revisions
> containing a file with the same contents. If <filename> is "-",
> it will read the contents from stdin. Of course, this is a really
> expensive operation.

I expected this to take arbitrary object name and let the caller to do 'hash-object', so that you could also find a certain tree, not just blob.