Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 25.09.2012 02:42: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 05:07:04PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote: > >>> If we linked with an embeddable scripting language interpreter >>> (e.g. lua, tcl, guile, ...), it may be a more practical enhancement, >>> though. >>> >> >> Yes, the idea is "extend, don't embed" the other way round, so to say. I >> still think extending "git log" so that it can call a script with commit >> info already in the environment gives a more convenient approach then >> "embedding git rev-list" into your own script. It's not more performant, >> of course. > > I think Junio is going the other way than you think. That is, you still > run rev-list, but rather than call a sub-program, you call a snippet of > an embeddable script. Which is the same idea as yours, but theoretically > way faster. > >> I just see many more requests of the type "grep notes" coming, i.e. >> limitting based on other commit info, or in a different way then already >> possible. Just image you want to find out who's responsible for those >> commits in git.git with subject lengths > 100 ;) > > Like this: > > git log --lua-filter='return subject().len > 100' > > ? :)
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