Re: Any way to make git-log to enumerate commits?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 6, 2018, 00:31 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqa7ljbimv.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20181205145419.vbbaghzzrnceez45@tigra>

Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix@bswap.ru> writes:

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> On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 05:22:14PM +0300, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote:
>
>> It would be great if git-log has a formatting option to insert an
>> index of the current commit since HEAD.
>> 
>> It would allow after quitting the git-log to immediately fire up "git
>> rebase -i HEAD~index" instead of "git rebase -i
>> go-copy-paste-this-long-number-id".
>
> This may have little sense in a general case as the history maintained
> by Git is a graph, not a single line. Hence your prospective approach
> would only work for cases like `git log` called with the
> "--first-parent" command-line option.

I do not see why the "name each rev relative to HEAD" formatting option cannot produce HEAD^2~2 etc.

It would be similar to "git log | git name-rev --stdin" but I do not offhand recall if we had a way to tell name-rev to use only HEAD as the anchoring point.