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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: "HEAD -> branch" decoration doesn't work with "--decorate=full"
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 10:13:49 -0700
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
>> Was that an oversight or a conscious decision?
>
> I actually think this ultimately comes from a poor design of the
> name-decorations infrastructure.

I should have said "poor design of the way how the name-decorations
infrastructure is used in log-tree (and commands in the log family)".

The name-decorations infrastructure itself is just fine.