From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:04:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Quickly searching for a note
Message-ID: <7vtxur3zxi.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <505CB21E.4040607@workspacewhiz.com>

Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com> writes:

>> 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).