From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:10:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Quickly searching for a note
Message-ID: <m2d31fbedd.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <505C7C80.3000700@workspacewhiz.com>

Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com> writes:

> Background: To tie Perforce changelists to Git commits, I add a note to a
> commit with the form "P4@123456".  Later, I use the note to sync down the
> closest Perforce changelist matching the Git commit.
>
> I search for these notes by getting a list of revisions:
>
>         git rev-list --max-count=1000
>
> I iterate those revisions and run git show and grep on each:
>
>         git show -s --format=%N%n%s --show-notes=p4notes COMMIT

How about "git grep P4@123456 notes/p4notes"?

Andreas.

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