From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:02:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-name-rev: accept list of refs from user
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702180101030.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070217234046.GB6014@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Jeff King wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 03:30:02PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > I was hoping that everybody would be happy once Johannes's patch
> > is extended to grok more than one --refs=<pattern> options.
> 
> I don't think just having text filters easily allows something like:
> 
>   git show-ref |
>     perl -ne 'print if m#tags/v1\.(\d+)# && $1 > 3' |
>     git name-rev --refs-from=- $commit

Does

	git name-rev --refs='*v1.[4-]*' $commit

what you are trying to achieve?

However, another use case could be where you do not want to tag a certain 
commit, but want to label it with a certin name just for this call to 
name-rev. But I don't know how useful that is.

Ciao,
Dscho