Re: [PATCH 2/2] allow '%d' pretty format specifier to show decoration

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Michael Dressel [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

I use it in a script to extract the log title of commits between certain
tags.

"git shortlog"?

I use my script to see all the changes (by log titles) between
the commit (prev) I ran the script the last time and the current commit (curr). Now there may be uninteresting tags and some commits may have more
than one tag. Merges made before tag B may introduce commits (say c1) that are 
made before say tag A but with git log prev..curr I may get a list like this

curr (current commit)
.
.
B (latest tag)
A (previous tag)
c1 (commit merged some time between A and B. 
.
.
prev (commit when script was run the last time)


Actually I use "git rev-list prev..curr" to get a list  of commits between
the last time I ran the script and the current head of the branch. Then
I need the git log --decorate only to get _all_ the tags assigned to a 
given commit. Git describe     does not give all the tags, as discussed
earlier. The resulting list of tags assigned to a commit is later
searched for the tag names I'm interested in. And then I use git log
again (git log A..B ) to extract the log titles between every two successive
tags, at this point I may use git shortlog.



Cheers,
Michael