Re: Complete http-pull; where should it go?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 2, 2005, 01:50 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505011840590.2162@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vsm16qyia.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sun, 1 May 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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>
> Shameless plug but could you take a look at how my JIT does it,
> at <http://members.cox.net/junkio/JITNotes.txt>, especially
> scroll down to near the bottom "Syntax to naming a snapshot or a
> commit" section?

Hmm.. I actually implemented it, because it's simple to implement, but now that I've tried using it, I just find it to be too much like line noise to do

	git-diff-tree -p 0-HEAD HEAD

for "parent to current". The notation "-HEAD" also works, but since that looks like a command line flag, it's usually not useful, except when combined with other stuff, ie "0---HEAD" is "three parents up".

> I still think this kind of thing belongs to Porcelain not
> Plumbing, though.

I don't entirely disagree, and I suspect that Porcelain ends up using the pure hex numbers which are always unambiguous.

That said, I end up still using the raw plumbing, so it's actually nice to have some simple shorthand. I just don't know if the parent thing ends up being all that useful.

Anyway, it's there. I don't love the parent syntax, but on the other hand, I don't know how often I'd even end up using it (while the tag and HEAD names are _very_ useful), so maybe it just doesn't matter.

		Linus