Hi, On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Jeff King wrote: > On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 02:49:31AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > door for :? to find the oldest such match (though I'm not sure if it > > > would be by topology or date). > > > > By topology makes no sense with more than one root. > > Agreed, but by date might not make sense if you have clock skew. I had > assumed your patch for "youngest" was by distance to ref, but I suppose > that doesn't make sense if you are looking over a set of possibly > unconnected refs. So I think trusting the clock may be the only sensible > thing. Given that most commits _will_ have a unique oneline, I think it does not matter that much. After all, the principal use case I see for it is finding a commit, given a shortlog, or a mail subject, or even a sentence muttered over the phone. Ciao, Dscho - 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