Re: [Feature request] Give non-unique names to commits for grouping

[Christos Pappas <chrispappas99@gmail.com>]

Thank you for your answers.

From what I can deduce, both of your suggestions require that the
commit messages(or notes) must have some special text for which we can
search for, which is hacky and would be different on every repository.

What I am suggesting is something like, labels on GitHub, hashtags on
Social-Media, or Tags in News sites. It's a well known concept so it
will be easy to understand and use.

We could initially create the concept of marks/labels/{another name}
('tags' is already in use by another git command) and then
incrementally enhance the git commands to use this functionality (like
the example I gave above, with git blame).


Στις Τετ, 11 Μαρ 2020 στις 6:00 μ.μ., ο/η Martin Fick
<mfick@codeaurora.org> έγραψε:
>
> 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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