From: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
To: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] builtin/refs: add "create" subcommand
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:05:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wlv4mq9s.fsf@emacs.iotcl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zf00mqv1.fsf@emacs.iotcl.com>
Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com> writes:
> Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
>> This flag is somewhat weird. Having it is probably a sensible think to
>> do, but now that I think about it I wonder whether the default makes all
>> that much sense in the first place. That being said, _if_ we want to
>> change it then we should change it for all subcommands.
>
> Not sure how to make it better, so let's leave it like this.
Well, we could drop the `--no-deref` completely? If you want to modify a
ref, use git-ref(1). If you pass that command a symref, it always
dereferences down to the ref. If you want to modify a symref, use
git-symbolic-ref(1).
--
Cheers,
Toon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-09 10:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-16 8:44 [PATCH 0/4] builtin/refs: add ability to write references Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-16 8:44 ` [PATCH 1/4] builtin/refs: drop `the_repository` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-16 8:44 ` [PATCH 2/4] builtin/refs: add "delete" subcommand Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-16 8:44 ` [PATCH 3/4] builtin/refs: add "update" subcommand Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-16 11:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-06-17 7:28 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-17 12:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-06-16 14:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-06-17 7:28 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-16 8:44 ` [PATCH 4/4] builtin/refs: add "rename" subcommand Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-16 14:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-06-17 7:28 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-17 12:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-06-17 10:15 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] builtin/refs: add ability to write references Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-17 10:15 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] builtin/refs: drop `the_repository` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-17 10:15 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] builtin/refs: add "delete" subcommand Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-17 10:16 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] builtin/refs: add "update" subcommand Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-17 10:16 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] builtin/refs: add "create" subcommand Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-29 20:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-06-30 10:31 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-17 10:16 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] builtin/refs: add "rename" subcommand Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-17 12:26 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] builtin/refs: add ability to write references Junio C Hamano
2026-06-29 20:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-06-30 10:31 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-30 11:49 ` [PATCH v3 " Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-30 11:49 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] builtin/refs: drop `the_repository` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-30 11:49 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] builtin/refs: add "delete" subcommand Patrick Steinhardt
2026-07-03 10:54 ` Toon Claes
2026-07-03 12:38 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-30 11:49 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] builtin/refs: add "update" subcommand Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-30 11:49 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] builtin/refs: add "create" subcommand Patrick Steinhardt
2026-07-03 14:19 ` Toon Claes
2026-07-06 7:12 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-07-09 9:53 ` Toon Claes
2026-07-09 10:05 ` Toon Claes [this message]
2026-06-30 11:49 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] builtin/refs: add "rename" subcommand Patrick Steinhardt
2026-07-03 14:31 ` Toon Claes
2026-07-06 7:12 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-30 19:16 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] builtin/refs: add ability to write references Junio C Hamano
2026-07-06 13:27 ` [PATCH v4 " Patrick Steinhardt
2026-07-06 13:27 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] builtin/refs: drop `the_repository` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-07-06 13:27 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] builtin/refs: add "delete" subcommand Patrick Steinhardt
2026-07-09 9:44 ` Toon Claes
2026-07-06 13:27 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] builtin/refs: add "update" subcommand Patrick Steinhardt
2026-07-06 13:27 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] builtin/refs: add "create" subcommand Patrick Steinhardt
2026-07-06 13:27 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] builtin/refs: add "rename" subcommand Patrick Steinhardt
2026-07-06 14:57 ` [PATCH v4 0/5] builtin/refs: add ability to write references Junio C Hamano
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