Re: [PATCH] describe: Add --left-only option

2013-05-17 Thread Mike Crowe
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 04:03:29PM +0100, John Keeping wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 03:24:26PM +0100, Mike Crowe wrote: > > Only consider the first parent commit when walking the commit history. This > > is useful if you only wish to match tags on your branch after a merge. > > For consistency

Re: [PATCH] describe: Add --left-only option

2013-05-17 Thread John Keeping
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 03:24:26PM +0100, Mike Crowe wrote: > Only consider the first parent commit when walking the commit history. This > is useful if you only wish to match tags on your branch after a merge. For consistency with "git log" should this be called "--first-parent"? In "git log" --