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From: Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org>
To: Christos Pappas <chrispappas99@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Feature request] Give non-unique names to commits for grouping
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:00:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2001043.V3P9HlvaID@mfick-lnx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGa6KtSgGOLVjHdubwRW=Bvnjnp2PoP7jJ5_NxNWGFLrVYT9SA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday, March 11, 2020 1:16:09 AM MDT Christos Pappas wrote:
> I suggest that we should have the option to mark each commit with a
> category name, that is not necessarily unique (like 'tags') so we
> could have commit groups.
> For example we could:
> git mark {commit_id} {name}
> 
> Then we could give special functionality to some commands based on
> those "marks".
> For example if we had marked a few commits with the name 'fix_typo'
> git log --mark fix_typo. Show all the commits marked with 'fix_typo'
> git blame --mark fix_typo Run git blame but ignore commits with 'fix_typo'

Perhaps git notes could be used to do something like this?

-Martin

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-11 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-10 23:16 [Feature request] Give non-unique names to commits for grouping Christos Pappas
2020-03-10 23:21 ` Konstantin Tokarev
2020-03-11 16:00 ` Martin Fick [this message]
2020-03-11 18:56   ` Christos Pappas
2020-03-11 19:31     ` Martin Fick
2020-03-11 20:47       ` Christos Pappas
2020-03-11 20:04     ` Junio C Hamano

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