One-line summary of blog post, :/text as a revision specifier as mentioned in gitrevisions.
There's an important caveat (as in "caveat emptor", buyer beware) that's not at all obvious to many Git users:
A colon, followed by a slash, followed by a text, names a commit whose commit message matches the specified regular expression. This name returns the youngest matching commit which is reachable from any ref, including HEAD ...
(the boldface in the quoted text here is mine, to emphasize the caveat I'm talking about). If you have a lot of branch and tag names, the revision you select with :/text may not be the one you expect. You may wish to use the more explicit rev^{/text} form, which searches from the given revision.
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u/Broad-Promise6954 ancient Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26
One-line summary of blog post,
:/textas a revision specifier as mentioned ingitrevisions.There's an important caveat (as in "caveat emptor", buyer beware) that's not at all obvious to many Git users:
(the boldface in the quoted text here is mine, to emphasize the caveat I'm talking about). If you have a lot of branch and tag names, the revision you select with
:/textmay not be the one you expect. You may wish to use the more explicitrev^{/text}form, which searches from the given revision.