From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 07:40:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Extending the shelf life of "git describe" output
Message-ID: <877gv2xwhb.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <7vfw9qyk6m.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
>
>> Two random thoughts:
>>
>> * The commit_only flag is only one thing you may "know" about the
>>   parsing, as you state above.  E.g., we may know the distance from a
>>   certain tag.  Given this, wouldn't it be cleaner to patch a struct
>>   things_we_know into the call chain instead of only a flag?
>>
>> * The treeish:path syntax also "knows" that the left side must be or
>>   peel to a tree, so it makes no sense to go looking for a blob.
>
> Both good.  I take it to mean that we found a volunteer to take the
> ownership of the second idea to build on top of the series ;-)

Does the idea come with round tuits included? :-)

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch