Re: [PATCH v4 01/10] ref-filter: add option to align atoms to the left

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Jacob Keller [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Duy Nguyen [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Eric Sunshine [off-list ref] wrote:

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You can generate an interdiff with "git diff branchname-v4
branchname-v5", for instance.

Off topic. But what stops me from doing this often is it creates a big
mess in "git tag -l". Do we have an option to hide away some
"insignificant:" tags? reflog might be an option if we have something
like foo@{/v2} to quickly retrieve the reflog entry whose message
contains "v2".

You can normally find the previous commit via the reflog. Various
changes to the settings can make the reflog be maintained for longer
if you have longer lived patch series. That's how I would suggest it,
rather than branches, as I tend not to keep old versions around on
separate tags or branches.

The problem with "foo@{/v2}" is that people don't always keep values
inside the message it self, but maybe "foo@{/pattern}" would be a
useful extension?

"reflog message" is different from "commit message". I was referring
to the first one (which is out of user control), perhaps you were
referring to the second one? I don't expect people to add v2 to
manually. If we have something like foo@{/v2} then we can teach
send-email (or format-patch) to add a reflog entry with "v2" in it.
But maybe we're abusing reflog..
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Duy