Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes:
> Fair, I should've double checked. Anyway, verifying the behaviour of
> both in the added test is probably still sensible.
I'll queue with this range-diff on top. :/<text> is explained in
"git help revisions" as "reachable from any ref", and it is a good
phrase to use there, I think.
Thanks, both, I should've double-checked, too.
## Commit message ##
object-name: fix reversed ordering with ":/<PATTERN>" revisions
- Recently it was reported [1] that "look for the youngest reachable
- commit with log message that match the given pattern" syntax (e.g.
- ':/<PATTERN>' or 'HEAD^{/<PATTERN>}') started to return results in
+ Recently it was reported [1] that "look for the youngest commit
+ reachable from any ref with log message that match the given
+ pattern" syntax (e.g. ':/<PATTERN>') started to return results in
reverse recency order. This regression was introduced in Git v2.47.0 and
is caused by a memory leak fix done in 57fb139b5e (object-name: fix
leaking commit list items, 2024-08-01).
