From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>,
git <git@vger.kernel.org>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
primetheus@github.com
Subject: Re: Find commit that referenced a blob first
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 15:45:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kYAQwfHZBSVG6ShVO6FCBKVu3CeKJ7ZLsRGVkfV73WmYA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr2jydf6c.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 3:38 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > If the given object refers to a blob, it will be described as
> > <commit-ish>:<path>,
> > such that the blob can be found at <path> in the <commit-ish>, which itself
> > describes the first commit in which this blob occurs in a reverse
> > revision walk from HEAD.
>
> You walk from the latest to earlier commit (because there by
> definition can be is no reverse pointer from older to newer commit),
but a "reverse walk from HEAD" produces the commits to us in an order
as if we were walking from earlier to latest?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-19 22:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-19 21:02 Find commit that referenced a blob first Lars Schneider
2018-07-19 21:19 ` Stefan Beller
2018-07-19 21:45 ` Lars Schneider
2018-07-19 21:47 ` Jeff King
2018-07-19 22:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-19 22:45 ` Stefan Beller [this message]
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