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Re: jk/tag-contains: stalled

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Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
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Aug 5, 2010, 19:18 UTC
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On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> I agree it's a pretty generic name. I was trying to make this as generic
> as possible, at least within the domain of commits, so it could be a
> faster replacement for calls to is_descendant_of. Maybe commit_contains?

I'm going to side-track this slightly. I wonder why branch and tag have --contains, but it is not more generically available via rev-list? I needed it the other day and spent 5 minutes looking at what it would take before I ended up just calling merge-base in a loop for the commits I wanted to check.

j.
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Message 8 of 27 in “What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2010, #01; Wed, 4)”
  1. Junio C HamanoAug 4, 2010
  2. jk/tag-contains: stalledTed Ts'o, Aug 5, 2010
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2010
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2010
  5. Jeff KingAug 5, 2010
  6. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2010
  7. Jeff KingAug 5, 2010
  8. Jay SoffianAug 5, 2010
  9. Jeff KingAug 5, 2010
  10. Jay SoffianAug 5, 2010
  11. Ted Ts'oAug 5, 2010
  12. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2010
  13. Thomas RastAug 5, 2010
  14. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2010
  15. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2010
  16. tc/checkout-BJonathan Nieder, Aug 5, 2010
  17. Tay Ray ChuanAug 5, 2010
  18. Matthieu MoyAug 5, 2010
  19. 1/5 diff: parse separate options like -S fooMatthieu Moy, Aug 5, 2010
  20. Jakub NarebskiAug 5, 2010
  21. Matthieu MoyAug 5, 2010
  22. 2/5 diff: split off a function for --stat-* option parsingMatthieu Moy, Aug 5, 2010
  23. 3/5 diff: parse separate options --stat-width n, --stat-name-width nMatthieu Moy, Aug 5, 2010
  24. 4/5 log: parse separate options like git log --grep fooMatthieu Moy, Aug 5, 2010
  25. 5/5 log: parse separate option for --globMatthieu Moy, Aug 5, 2010
  26. mm/shortopt-detachedJonathan Nieder, Aug 5, 2010
  27. Dmitry V. LevinAug 5, 2010

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