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Re: Quickly searching for a note

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 21, 2012, 20:04 UTC
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Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com> writes:
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>> Is there any particular reason you do that as two separate steps?
>> It would feel more natural, at least to me, to do something along
>> the lines of
>>
>> 	git log --show-notes=p4notes -1000
>>
>>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I did not make clear above that I want to stop looking when I find the
> first commit that has the note.
>
> In the case of 'git log --show-notes=p4notes -1000', Git will process
> and hand me the log output for 1,000 commits.  It is rare I need to
> walk that deep.

I simply matched it with your initial "rev-list --max-count=1000". The "log" command pages and you can hit 'q' once you saw enough (in other words, you do not have to say -1000).

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