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Re: feature request: git-log should accept sth like v2.6.26-rc8-227

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jul 10, 2008, 23:47 UTC
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Hi,
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Besides, it would be nice to have some command (git-rev-parse 
> >> > perhaps?) which could take ambiguous commit-ish, and list all commit 
> >> > which matches it.
> >> 
> >> Have fun writing it and send in a patch.
> >
> > Note that this really could be a patch, but not for rev-parse.  Patch 
> > revision.c instead to parse the argument into _all_ matching revisions.
> 
> As Linus pointed out, that is "all _locally_ matching revisions".  It is 
> of dubious value in a distributed environment.

Right. Judging from some of the conversations on IRC (and even on this list), it seems that the word "local" for the reflogs is lost on some, and there is no reason to expect otherwise for the currently proposed thing.

So strike my suggestions, Dscho

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Message 9 of 19 in “feature request: git-log should accept sth like v2.6.26-rc8-227”
  1. Toralf FörsterJul 10, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2008
  3. Jakub NarebskiJul 10, 2008
  4. Toralf FörsterJul 10, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinJul 10, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2008
  8. Jakub NarebskiJul 10, 2008
  9. Johannes SchindelinJul 10, 2008
  10. Linus TorvaldsJul 10, 2008
  11. Johannes SchindelinJul 10, 2008
  12. Toralf FörsterJul 11, 2008
  13. Johannes SchindelinJul 11, 2008
  14. Toralf FörsterJul 11, 2008
  15. Dmitry PotapovJul 11, 2008
  16. Toralf FörsterJul 11, 2008
  17. Dmitry PotapovJul 11, 2008
  18. Johannes SchindelinJul 11, 2008
  19. Johannes SchindelinJul 11, 2008

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