On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:55:34 +0200, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 03:58:35PM +0200, "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > We are not used to working with $SHA's, and IMHO from the end-user pov, > > a $SHA is less user friendly than a release number or a file version. I > > can remember a version, but I cannot remember a SHA. > > But a version is never unique in a distributed environment. So a version > is useless without at least an abbreviated hash. Which is exactly what my git-hist does: # git-hist *pm | perl -ne'63..83 and print' 09d4472 2007-12-06 13:25:58 63: allow_loose_quotes => 0, 09d4472 2007-12-06 13:25:58 64: allow_loose_escapes => 0, 09d4472 2007-12-06 13:25:58 65: allow_whitespace => 0, caf4798 2008-02-19 17:56:36 0.34 + 004 66: blank_is_undef => 0, 09d4472 2007-12-06 13:25:58 67: verbatim => 0, 09d4472 2007-12-06 13:25:58 68: types => undef, 09d4472 2007-12-06 13:25:58 69: 8648db0 2008-03-27 18:37:54 0.37 + 002 70: 09d4472 2007-12-06 13:25:58 71: _EOF => 0, 09d4472 2007-12-06 13:25:58 72: _STATUS => undef, 09d4472 2007-12-06 13:25:58 73: _FIELDS => undef, 09d4472 2007-12-06 13:25:58 74: _FFLAGS => undef, 09d4472 2007-12-06 13:25:58 75: _STRING => undef, 09d4472 2007-12-06 13:25:58 76: _ERROR_INPUT => undef, 2b95026 2008-04-04 11:10:09 0.37 + 006 77: _COLUMN_NAMES => undef, ce53d02 2008-04-06 00:40:26 0.37 + 016 78: _BOUND_COLUMNS => undef, 09d4472 2007-12-06 13:25:58 79: ); caf4798 2008-02-19 17:56:36 0.34 + 004 80: my $last_new_err = ""; 09d4472 2007-12-06 13:25:58 81: 09d4472 2007-12-06 13:25:58 82: sub new 09d4472 2007-12-06 13:25:58 83: { > If pure hashes are not friendly enough, you can use something like: > > git describe $(git rev-list -1 HEAD -- <file>) What do I miss here? > git describe $(git rev-list -1 HEAD -- *pm) fatal: cannot describe 'c2220c8a544af5cd5419e238eb5f43b1f079ad85' > to get the _hash_ of the _commit_ (ie. not the version of a file) that > touched the file last time. My git-hist is just a perl script that collects the combined information of git-log --pretty=format:'%h %ct %s' git-show-ref --tags and git-blame file I could also make it a reformatting wrapper over several calls to git blame -l file | git name-rev --stdin --tags Which is probably faster for a single file, but slower on multiple files -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, SuSE 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ -- 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