Package: git
Version: 1:2.10.2-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
The zsh completion for 'git checkout <TAB>' has an array of N branch
names (without "refs/heads/" prefix) and would like to obtain log
message summaries for all of them. Ideally, we'd like to run
..
git … -- branchname1 branchname2 branchname3
..
and get back the log message summaries of branchname{1..3}, in this
order, separated by LFs or NULs.
(The branch names originate from 'git reflog' output, it if matters.)
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
We tried 'git log --no-walk=unsorted $branch_names', but that printed
just one entry if two of the arguments were ref names that pointed at
the same commit object.
We tried 'git for-each-ref $branch_names', but that sorts the refs
before they're printed.
We tried invoking git once per branch name, but that performed too
slowly.
* Suggestions?
An option for 'git log' to not deduplicate refs that point at the same
commit, or a --no-sort option to 'git for-each-ref', would address this
use-case.
Cheers,
Daniel
