Re: [RFC] Using gitrevisions :/search style with other operators

On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 08:30:23AM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:

Jeff wrote:

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It seems to me the natural way to do that would be to use our existing
generic "start at this ref and follow some chain" syntax, which is
ref^{foo}. For example: origin/pu^{:Merge 'kb/blame-author-email'}.

We may want to keep the "/" mnemonic (which seems no to conflict
withcurrent use either), rather than the ":" part, with something like
origin/pu^{/Merge 'kb/blame-author-email'}, and keep ":" for future use.

Yeah, sorry, the ':' thing was just a think-o on my part. It should
definitely be "/".

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We also have ref@{upstream}. The analogue here would be
origin/pu@{:Merge 'kb/blame-author-email'}.

That's somewhat different, it looks like the foo@{...} only applies to
references with name "foo", and not to arbitrary revisions.  Allowing a
search to start from any commit seems more useful here.

Yeah, agreed.

-Peff