From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 09:40:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Gitk feature - show nearby tags
Message-ID: <e5bfff550606040240p61dfcddaw987da180358c40fb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk67xclx7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 6/4/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> "Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > What you suggest we need it's a kind of history of tags.
>
> I do not understand what you mean by "history of tags".  Are you
> talking about "tag v1.0.0 was pointing at X commit yesterday but
> now today it points at Y commit"?
>
> > And, according to Paul suggestions, not only tags, but merge revisions
> > between tags.
> >
> > A more general and IMHO very powerful tool could be something like
> >
> > git-rev-list --top-order --parents --selected-only HEAD -- <sha 1>
> > <sha 2> .....  <sha n>
> >
> > Where git rev list gives the history, with modified parents, of the
> > given revisions _only_ plus the merging revisions among them.
>
> You completely lost me here.  The '--' markers are to mean "from
> here on the parameters are not revisions but are path limiters",
> so you are doing something else.  What are these <sha1#1>, <sha1#2>,...
> in this?  Are they revisions (i.e. commit object names)?

Yes they are.

Insted of path limiters I meant revisions limiters.

Given a revision history like

a
b--|
|   f
|   g
c
d
e

git-rev-list --top-order --parents --selected-only HEAD -- <a>  <g>  <d>

Should output something like

a
b--|
|   g
d

Of course with modified parent information as does git-rev-list
--parents -- foo.c