Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2013, #07; Tue, 26)

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Mar 28, 2013, 08:00 UTC
Message-ID: <87ehf0uf72.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vy5d8jz0y.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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

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>> * tr/line-log (2013-03-23) 6 commits
>>  - Speed up log -L... -M
>>  - log -L: :pattern:file syntax to find by funcname
>>  - Implement line-history search (git log -L)
>>  - Export rewrite_parents() for 'log -L'
>>  - fixup
>>  - Refactor parse_loc
>>
>>  Rerolled; collides with nd/magic-pathspecs.
>
> Honestly I am not sure what to make of this one.  I'd say we should
> merge this down as-is to 'master', expecting that in some future we
> would fix "log --follow" to keep the refspecs per history traversal
> path, so that this can be more naturally reimplemented.  Objections?

I was really hoping for something like that to happen :-) but I need to look into at least one segfault bug in the option parser, noticed by Antoine Pelisse. Expect a (final?) reroll soon.

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