On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 05:07:04PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote: > > If we linked with an embeddable scripting language interpreter > > (e.g. lua, tcl, guile, ...), it may be a more practical enhancement, > > though. > > > > Yes, the idea is "extend, don't embed" the other way round, so to say. I > still think extending "git log" so that it can call a script with commit > info already in the environment gives a more convenient approach then > "embedding git rev-list" into your own script. It's not more performant, > of course. I think Junio is going the other way than you think. That is, you still run rev-list, but rather than call a sub-program, you call a snippet of an embeddable script. Which is the same idea as yours, but theoretically way faster. > I just see many more requests of the type "grep notes" coming, i.e. > limitting based on other commit info, or in a different way then already > possible. Just image you want to find out who's responsible for those > commits in git.git with subject lengths > 100 ;) Like this: git log --lua-filter='return subject().len > 100' ? :) -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html