so that git-describe searches first-parent history only when looking for
a named commit. This is useful for describing commits by tags on their
"main" (first-parent) branch.
git describe --contains --first-parent is forbidden because git name-rev
(which is called by that) favors first-parent transversal already,
although not strictly so.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
---
Notes:
Is this considered useful? RFC because of lack of doc and test.
I consider it easier than (and different from) --match in some cases.
builtin/describe.c | 8 +++++++-
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/describe.c b/builtin/describe.c
index 43caff2..6b2b599 100644
--- a/builtin/describe.c
+++ b/builtin/describe.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ static int tags; /* Allow lightweight tags */
static int longformat;
static int abbrev = DEFAULT_ABBREV;
static int max_candidates = 10;
+static int first_parent;
static int found_names;
static const char *pattern;
static int always;
@@ -302,7 +303,7 @@ static void describe(const char *arg, int last_one)
if (!(p->object.flags & SEEN))
insert_by_date(p, &list);
p->object.flags |= c->object.flags;
- parents = parents->next;
+ parents = first_parent ? NULL : parents->next;
}
}
@@ -380,6 +381,8 @@ int cmd_describe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
"only consider tags matching <pattern>"),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "always", &always,
"show abbreviated commit object as fallback"),
+ OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "first-parent", &first_parent,
+ "follow first parents only"),
{OPTION_STRING, 0, "dirty", &dirty, "mark",
"append <mark> on dirty working tree (default: \"-dirty\")",
PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, NULL, (intptr_t) "-dirty"},
@@ -397,6 +400,9 @@ int cmd_describe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
if (longformat && abbrev == 0)
die("--long is incompatible with --abbrev=0");
+ if (contains && ...
