Re: [ANNOUNCE] chronoversion: chronological archiving script with temporary commits

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 13, 2007, 15:42 UTC
Message-ID: <et6gkk$ngm$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <e1dab3980703130526t4b573f18h793a065d54c9369@mail.gmail.com>

[Cc: git@vger.kernel.org]

David Tweed wrote:

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> Hi, I believe that I've now got temporary commits (for bookkeeping,
> hi-granularity bisecting recent changes) working, so I'm just
> mentioning there's a new version of chronoversion at
> 
> http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~sis05dst/chronoversion.tgz

By the way, do you have homepage for this project? If not, perhaps
you could write a few sentences on git wiki, e.g. at
  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/Chronoversion
(linking it from http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools)

[...]

> Is there any neat way of using builtin stuff like git-rev-parse to ask
> if a ref has a given SHA1 value and return an easily parsed yes/no
> answer?

There is git-show-ref which was made because of introduction of packed refs, and there is git-for-each-ref which _might_ be used to avoid extra forking (extra calls).

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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