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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Pete Harlan <pgit@tento.net>,
	Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>,
	Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tag: do not show ambiguous tag names as "tags/foo"
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 04:56:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160125095629.GB24452@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cTq0j0ss=qw9Dx8-PqFA5WJwP0mpvoO+5=NXtOt2EUNww@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 06:39:05PM -0500, Eric Sunshine wrote:

> > Yeah, "strip=2" would also get the job done, and extends more naturally
> > to the branch case.
> >
> > To be honest, I cannot imagine anybody using anything _but_ strip=2, but
> > maybe there are special cases, like:
> >
> >   git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:strip=3)' refs/heads/jk/
> >
> > to get my list of topics, sans initials.
> 
> What if the option was named ":stripprefix=" in its most general form:
> 
>     %(refname:stripprefix=refs/tags/)
> 
> with plain:
> 
>     %(refname:stripprefix)
> 
> shorthand for ":stripprefix=refs/*/" or something?

That would work, though I was really hoping not to get into something as
complicated as globbing. I'm not sure it really buys us that much here.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-25  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-23 23:56 Regression? Ambiguous tags listed as "tags/<foo>" Pete Harlan
2016-01-24  7:12 ` [PATCH] tag: do not show ambiguous tag names as "tags/foo" Jeff King
2016-01-24  7:18   ` Jeff King
2016-01-24 22:19     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-24 22:27       ` Jeff King
2016-01-24 23:39         ` Eric Sunshine
2016-01-25  9:56           ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-01-25  2:26         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-25 10:01           ` Jeff King
2016-01-25 19:29             ` Karthik Nayak
2016-01-25 20:21             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-26  2:37               ` Jeff King
2016-01-26  3:00                 ` Jeff King
2016-01-26  3:25                 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-24 23:05       ` Jeff King
2016-01-24 23:08         ` [PATCH 1/2] t6300: use test_atom for some un-modern tests Jeff King
2016-01-24 23:08         ` [PATCH 2/2] tag: do not show ambiguous tag names as "tags/foo" Jeff King
2016-01-26  0:04           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-26  4:25             ` Karthik Nayak

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