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

On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:46:59 -0800
Kevin Ballard [off-list ref] wrote:

On Nov 9, 2010, at 11:32 PM, Yann Dirson wrote:

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Another thing to consider - the current :/foo syntax searches for
the newest commit reachable from any ref. Using the ^{} syntax will
require specifying a ref first. I'm not sure this is a problem
though, as I'm not really sure why :/foo searches from all refs to
begin with.

The syntax could be extended so that ^{whatever} starts looking at
current commit (ie. HEAD), somewhat like @{whatever} looks at
reflog for current branch.

:/foo doesn't start from the current commit - it searches all refs.
However, making ^{} search all refs if not given one doesn't make
sense for any operator except :/foo, so I don't think it's worth doing

Yes, that's why I suggested to make it search from HEAD, not from all
refs.

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Yann Dirson - Bertin Technologies