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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] [RFD] Using gitrevisions :/search style with other operators
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:36:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v7hfhb3pl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64905EED-F368-4D3F-9D2D-C08D9B460D67@sb.org> (Kevin Ballard's message of "Fri\, 10 Dec 2010 15\:11\:56 -0800")

Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> writes:

> On Dec 10, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ...
>>  d414638 Merge branch 'rj/msvc-fix' into pu
>>  ...
>>  1b2ea00 Merge branch 'mg/cvsimport' into pu
>>  c6d41f4 Merge branch 'nd/maint-relative' into pu
>>  81f395e Merge branch 'ab/i18n' into pu
>>  9f5471f Merge branch 'nd/setup' into pu
>>  06f74a4 Merge branch 'yd/dir-rename' into pu
>>  d8a2ec8 Merge branch 'en/object-list-with-pathspec' into pu
>> 
>> After looking at this output, do you really want to say ":nth(2)/nd/"
>> instead of 9f5471f?
>
> Yep. Doing the latter either requires me to swap over to my mouse, copy the sha1,
> and paste in, or requires me to peer at the sha1 and re-type enough characters.
> It's a lot easier to just glance at that list, realize the 2nd one is the one I
> want, and type `git merge :^{nth(2)/nd/}`. It may not necessarily be faster than
> retyping the sha1, but it's a lot less prone to transcription errors.

What you said heavily depends on the way in which I give names to the
branches, and also on the fact that "nd/" happens to be not very common
prefix at this moment.  If the branches were named without nd/ part and
still be unique, you would not be arguing for nth(2) at all to begin with.

So it is dubious that your argument is convincing.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-10 23:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-08 14:58 [PATCH 0/2] [RFD] Using gitrevisions :/search style with other operators Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2010-12-08 14:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] get_sha1_oneline: allow to input commit_list Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2010-12-08 15:11   ` Thiago Farina
2010-12-08 14:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] get_sha1: support ref^{/regex} syntax Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2010-12-08 22:50   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-08 18:06 ` [PATCH 0/2] [RFD] Using gitrevisions :/search style with other operators Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-08 19:51   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09  1:28     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-12-09  1:54       ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09  1:59         ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-09  2:02           ` Kevin Ballard
2010-12-09  2:06             ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-12-09  2:11               ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-09  6:22           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-09 11:38             ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10 13:25             ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-12-10 19:03               ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-10 19:26                 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-10 21:21                 ` Kevin Ballard
2010-12-10 21:30                   ` Jeff King
2010-12-10 23:08                   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-10 23:11                     ` Kevin Ballard
2010-12-10 23:36                       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2010-12-09  5:15     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-08 19:47 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-08 20:40   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-09  0:30   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-12-09  0:44     ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09  1:42       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-12-09  1:46         ` Kevin Ballard
2010-12-09 11:43         ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-09 11:53           ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy

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