On Fri, 19 May 2006, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
>
> I guess I did forget that it sticks around. So you have to be doing
> something somewhat more complicated, like fetching the latest versions of
> multiple topic branches.
I actually don't think it's at all unlikely that I'd start using this.
I tend to work in "spurts", where I do one thing for a while, and then
merge several pull requests in fairly short order. So while I use
ORIG_HEAD a lot, I can certainly imagine myself using the "since 2 hours
ago" format too.
I'm not entirely sure about the syntax, though. It ends up being pretty
command-line-unfriendly. The "gitk ORIG_HEAD.." thing is fairly easy to
type, but typing
gitk 'master@{2 hours ago}'..
on a Finnish keyboard (yeah, that's what I still use) is "interesting",
since all of '@', '{' and '}' are complex characters (AltGr + '2', AltGr +
'7' and AltGr + '0' respectively), and you have to remember the quoting.
Not that I see any obvious better syntax. Although allowing a shorthand
like "@2.hours.ago" for "current branch, at given date" might help a
bit, at least that wouldn't need quoting:
gitk @2.hours.ago..
Linus
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