Re: [PATCH] check_everything_connected: assume alternate ref tips are valid

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 06:11:31AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> Subject: [PATCH] check_everything_connected: assume alternate ref tips...

Heh. This subject should just be "check_connected" these days. I wrote
this patch originally many years ago, before 7043c7071c
(check_everything_connected: use a struct with named options,
2016-07-15) gave the function a shorter name.

But the patch has been updated recently to match other updates to the
alternates code. In particular, in the original "rev-list
--alternate-refs" behaved as if all of the refs from the alternate were
mentioned on the command line, and you could use --exclude, etc as if
they were real refs. But we've since simplified the alternates interface
to just get a list of oids, so now it behaves more like
"--indexed-objects" in that it acts as if those oids were mentioned on
the command line.

I think "--alternate-refs" is still the right name, though, since we're
just giving the oids at the ref tips. And I think the included
documentation makes this clear.

-Peff