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

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 10, 2008, 19:42 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > git-describe gives an informative string about the current status:
> > tfoerste@n22 ~/devel/linux-2.6 $ git describe
> > v2.6.26-rc9-56-g6329d30
> >
> > I appended those strings to the names of my UML kernel executables.
> > Unfortunately I didn't used the commit id and now I'm wondering whether git
> > could accept v2.6.26-rc9-56 as well in future.
> 
> It does take v2.6.26-rc9-56-g6329d30.
> 
> It will never take v2.6.26-rc9-56.  The world is not linear.
Nevertheless it _could_ be unique.

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.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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  1. Toralf FörsterJul 10, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2008
  3. Jakub NarebskiJul 10, 2008
  4. Toralf FörsterJul 10, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinJul 10, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2008
  8. Jakub NarebskiJul 10, 2008
  9. Johannes SchindelinJul 10, 2008
  10. Linus TorvaldsJul 10, 2008
  11. Johannes SchindelinJul 10, 2008
  12. Toralf FörsterJul 11, 2008
  13. Johannes SchindelinJul 11, 2008
  14. Toralf FörsterJul 11, 2008
  15. Dmitry PotapovJul 11, 2008
  16. Toralf FörsterJul 11, 2008
  17. Dmitry PotapovJul 11, 2008
  18. Johannes SchindelinJul 11, 2008
  19. Johannes SchindelinJul 11, 2008

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