Konstantin Khomoutov <kos...@bswap.ru> writes: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 05:22:14PM +0300, Konstantin Kharlamov wrote: > >> It would be great if git-log has a formatting option to insert an >> index of the current commit since HEAD. >> >> It would allow after quitting the git-log to immediately fire up "git >> rebase -i HEAD~index" instead of "git rebase -i >> go-copy-paste-this-long-number-id". > > This may have little sense in a general case as the history maintained > by Git is a graph, not a single line. Hence your prospective approach > would only work for cases like `git log` called with the > "--first-parent" command-line option.
I do not see why the "name each rev relative to HEAD" formatting option cannot produce HEAD^2~2 etc. It would be similar to "git log | git name-rev --stdin" but I do not offhand recall if we had a way to tell name-rev to use only HEAD as the anchoring point.
