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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 24, 2007, 02:14 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702240311240.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070224015731.GA10198@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 02:49:31AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > > door for :? to find the oldest such match (though I'm not sure if it 
> > > would be by topology or date).
> >
> > By topology makes no sense with more than one root.
> 
> Agreed, but by date might not make sense if you have clock skew. I had 
> assumed your patch for "youngest" was by distance to ref, but I suppose 
> that doesn't make sense if you are looking over a set of possibly 
> unconnected refs. So I think trusting the clock may be the only sensible 
> thing.

Given that most commits _will_ have a unique oneline, I think it does not matter that much. After all, the principal use case I see for it is finding a commit, given a shortlog, or a mail subject, or even a sentence muttered over the phone.

Ciao, Dscho