From: William Chargin <wchargin@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 05:13:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Unexpected behavior with :/<text> references
Message-ID: <CAFW+GMAnkLYReotwRvbVt9iPqmuq_8WMc1sck4Jkj_fyafVm3w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAFW+GMBLeLyJjJPaEXkyQ5fJ=L4q4vQ=26wjZ+n07ZvSaTaCUg@mail.gmail.com>

After further investigation, it appears that ":/foo" indeed resolves to
the commit with message "foobar" (in the above example) if the commits
are not all created at the same time: e.g., by adding `sleep 1` between
the commit commands, or exporting `GIT_AUTHOR_DATE`.

This leaves only the question of why :/<text> references don't resolve
to commits reachable only from HEAD, and whether this is the best
behavior.