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authorJohannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>2007-02-24 03:08:20 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2007-02-24 02:06:18 -0800
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object name: introduce ':/<oneline prefix>' notation
To name a commit, you can now say $ git rev-parse ':/Initial revision of "git"' and it will return the hash of the youngest commit whose commit message (the oneline) begins with the given prefix. For future extension, a leading exclamation mark is treated specially: if you want to match a commit message starting with a '!', just repeat the exclamation mark. So, to match a commit which starts with '!Hello World', use $ git show ':/!!Hello World' Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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@@ -190,6 +190,13 @@ blobs contained in a commit.
and dereference the tag recursively until a non-tag object is
found.
+* A colon, followed by a slash, followed by a text: this names
+ a commit whose commit message starts with the specified text.
+ This name returns the youngest matching commit which is
+ reachable from any ref. If the commit message starts with a
+ '!', you have to repeat that; the special sequence ':/!',
+ followed by something else than '!' is reserved for now.
+
* A suffix ':' followed by a path; this names the blob or tree
at the given path in the tree-ish object named by the part
before the colon.