From: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>
To: "Ramkumar Ramachandra" <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: "Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] sh-setup: add new peel_committish() helper
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:44:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <02E12EC628804EACABF52ACDFE2BDCF4@PhilipOakley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CALkWK0kCOJTRTQ-eKbOUnD18xWFqMnYi385aN=+_H4CoLZSLhQ@mail.gmail.com
From: "Ramkumar Ramachandra" <artagnon@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 5:18 PM
> Philip Oakley wrote:
>> Is there a proper name for this style of revision specification? I've
>> been
>> letting this 'style' wash over me in the hope that I'd understand
>> eventually, but it hasn't.
>
> See gitrevisions(7). None of them have any names.
... which is a shame...
>
>> Loking at git-rev-parse I now see that it might be the 'Commit
>> Message
>> Regex' rev specifier.
>
> Did you just invent that term? I couldn't find any mentions of it.
Yep, hence the 'it might be'. Maybe I missed a word and should have
written 'it might be called' ;-)
It would be useful to have some descriptive names for these unusual
(uncommon) methods.
There's already the "pathspec :(glob) syntax".
Philip
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-14 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-14 13:17 [PATCH 0/3] Get rebase to work with :/foomery committish Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-14 13:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] t/rebase: add failing tests for a peculiar revision Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-14 13:17 ` [PATCH 2/3] sh-setup: add new peel_committish() helper Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-14 16:05 ` Philip Oakley
2013-06-14 16:18 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-14 16:44 ` Philip Oakley [this message]
2013-06-14 13:17 ` [PATCH 3/3] rebase: use peel_committish() where appropriate Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-14 16:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-15 13:47 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-17 2:52 ` Junio C Hamano
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-06-13 18:15 [PATCH 0/3] Support :/quuxery in rebase (early preview) Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-13 18:16 ` [PATCH 2/3] sh-setup: add new peel_committish() helper Ramkumar Ramachandra
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