From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk,
John Cai via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] show-ref: add --unresolved option
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2024 18:19:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqv860umo9.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240306003343.GA3797463@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 5 Mar 2024 19:33:43 -0500")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 03:30:35PM +0000, Phillip Wood wrote:
>
>> Hi John
>>
>> On 04/03/2024 22:51, John Cai via GitGitGadget wrote:
>> > From: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
>> >
>> > For reftable development, it would be handy to have a tool to provide
>> > the direct value of any ref whether it be a symbolic ref or not.
>> > Currently there is git-symbolic-ref, which only works for symbolic refs,
>> > and git-rev-parse, which will resolve the ref. Let's add a --unresolved
>> > option that will only take one ref and return whatever it points to
>> > without dereferencing it.
>>
>> "--unresolved" makes me think of merge conflicts. I wonder if
>> "--no-dereference" would be clearer.
>
> We have "--no-deref" in "git update-ref" already. It is probably better
> to stay consistent.
That's an excellent precedent. Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-06 2:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-04 22:51 [PATCH] show-ref: add --unresolved option John Cai via GitGitGadget
2024-03-04 23:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-05 20:56 ` John Cai
2024-03-05 21:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-05 15:30 ` Phillip Wood
2024-03-05 17:01 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2024-03-06 0:33 ` Jeff King
2024-03-06 2:19 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2024-03-06 0:41 ` Jeff King
2024-03-06 7:31 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-03-06 7:51 ` Jeff King
2024-03-06 16:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-06 9:36 ` Jean-Noël Avila
2024-04-08 17:38 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] show-ref: add --symbolic-name option John Cai via GitGitGadget
2024-04-08 17:38 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] refs: keep track of unresolved reference value in iterator John Cai via GitGitGadget
2024-04-08 23:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-09 20:29 ` John Cai
2024-04-10 6:52 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-10 15:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-11 9:11 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-08 17:38 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] refs: add referent to each_repo_ref_fn John Cai via GitGitGadget
2024-04-08 17:38 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] show-ref: add --symbolic-name option John Cai via GitGitGadget
2024-04-09 15:25 ` Phillip Wood
2024-04-11 19:57 ` John Cai
2024-04-12 9:37 ` phillip.wood123
2024-04-10 6:53 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-10 15:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-12 15:23 ` John Cai
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