Re: [PATCH] object name: introduce ':::<oneline prefix>' notation

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 24, 2007, 01:21 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702240220300.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070224011214.GA8369@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:48:38PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > > To name a commit, you can now say
> > > 
> > > 	git rev-parse ':::Initial revision of "git"'
> > 
> > Alex Riesen and Shawn Pearce suggested ":/" instead of ":::", to 
> > reflect the searching nature ("/" is the key to search in "less" 
> > output).
> 
> Is there a particular argument for using a special syntax in the commit 
> argument? Why not just add a '--grep' or similar option to indicate that 
> we will be grepping the commits logs?

--grep works with git-log, but not with rev-parse, rev-list, show, diff, etc.

Ciao, Dscho