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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 11, 2008, 19:57 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807112041470.8950@racer>
In-Reply-To: <20080711192902.GD1721@dpotapov.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:

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> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 04:58:40PM +0200, Toralf Förster wrote:
> > 
> > $> git-log v2.6.26-rc9.. --pretty=short | grep "^commit" | cut -f2 -d' ' | xargs -n 1 git describe | grep '\-56\-'
> 
> The fastest way to do the same would be:
> 
> git rev-list v2.6.26-rc9.. | xargs git describe | grep '\-56\-'

You forgot the "--all" option to rev-list.

And I doubt it would be the "fastest" way, in terms of execution speed.

Also, it leaves out this case:

rc9 - A - B - C - D - F
    \               /
      ----- E -----

F would be "rc9-5", but also "rc9-2".

Oh, and this would leave out reflogs, too.

Can we please let this concept die now?

Hth, Dscho