Re: How to display "HEAD~*" in "git log"

From: wuzhouhui <wuzhouhui14@mails.ucas.ac.cn>
To: Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix@bswap.ru>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to display "HEAD~*" in "git log"
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2022 17:36:52 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a1e53e52-cb08-bbff-f58a-391932707fb7@mails.ucas.ac.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220705093057.5ewqobdjrqr3ul2k@carbon>


On 7/5/22 17:30, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 12:25:14PM +0300, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:
>
> [...]
>> This is admittedly not convenient so it makes sense to turn into an alias:
>>
>>   [alias]
>>     relog = "!relog() { git log --oneline \"$@\" | { n=0; while read line; do printf 'HEAD~%d\t%s\n' $n \"$line\"; n=$((n+1)); done; }; }; relog"
> [...]
>
> An alternative to an alias it creating a specially named script file which
> must be executable and located in a directorly listed in the environment
> variable PATH.
> For instance, if you have ~/bin listed in your PATH, you can create a file
> named "git-relog" containing the encantation from my first mail in this
> thread, then call
>
>    $ git relog
>
> and that script will be found and executed.
Thanks for your reply, it does solve my problems.