From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] ls-remote: document --refs option Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:31:40 -0500 Message-ID: <20160118193140.GB1009@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <1453028643-13978-1-git-send-email-t.gummerer@gmail.com> <1453136238-19448-1-git-send-email-t.gummerer@gmail.com> <1453136238-19448-3-git-send-email-t.gummerer@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, bturner@atlassian.com, gitster@pobox.com, pedrorijo91@gmail.com To: Thomas Gummerer X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 18 20:31:50 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aLFWn-0002lr-Lw for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 20:31:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756412AbcARTbo (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:31:44 -0500 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([50.56.180.127]:55578 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1756403AbcARTbn (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:31:43 -0500 Received: (qmail 29885 invoked by uid 102); 18 Jan 2016 19:31:43 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.1) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:31:43 -0500 Received: (qmail 13017 invoked by uid 107); 18 Jan 2016 19:32:03 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:32:03 -0500 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:31:40 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1453136238-19448-3-git-send-email-t.gummerer@gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 05:57:15PM +0100, Thomas Gummerer wrote: > +--refs:: > + Do not show peeled tags or pseudo-refs like HEAD or MERGE_HEAD > + in the output. > + Minor nit: we show whatever the other side sends us, which is the refs, HEAD, and peeled tags. So mentioning MERGE_HEAD isn't wrong (if the server _did_ send it to us, we would omit it), but it is a bit misleading. I think saying "pseudo-refs like HEAD" is OK; even though we know it is only HEAD in the current server implementation, it better describes what the client side is doing. -Peff