From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:47:37 GMT Subject: Re: feature request: git-log should accept sth like v2.6.26-rc8-227 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vk5ftnyhp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Hi, On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin writes: > > > On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > >> Jakub Narebski 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