From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Karl Chen <quarl@cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>,
David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>,
Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-rev-parse --symbolic-abbrev-name
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:36:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v63kuyibi.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <quack.20090104T0434.lthfxjz1c8x_-_@roar.cs.berkeley.edu> (Karl Chen's message of "Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:34:06 -0800")
Karl Chen <quarl@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
> ... you really think "branchfoo" instead of
> "refs/heads/branchfoo" is a narrow special case?
Of course it is narrower. There are namespaces other than "heads" under
refs, and not everybody is interested in branches.
> obviously all those people posting on blogs don't know about it :)
Yes, and that won't be helped by any new option to the plumbing.
The above two does not necessarily mean that it is useless to add a new
option to help a narrow special case that is common, though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-04 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-02 3:28 git-branch --print-current Karl Chen
2009-01-02 4:26 ` David Aguilar
2009-01-04 2:18 ` Karl Chen
2009-01-04 3:38 ` Miklos Vajna
2009-01-04 4:26 ` Karl Chen
2009-01-04 5:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-04 12:34 ` git-rev-parse --symbolic-abbrev-name [was Re: git-branch --print-current] Karl Chen
2009-01-04 12:40 ` demerphq
2009-01-04 19:36 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-01-04 20:23 ` git-rev-parse --symbolic-abbrev-name Arnaud Lacombe
2009-01-04 22:38 ` Miklos Vajna
2009-01-05 5:35 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2009-01-05 6:45 ` Miklos Vajna
2009-01-06 8:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-07 4:58 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2009-01-04 13:35 ` git-branch --print-current demerphq
2009-01-05 0:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-05 2:18 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-01-05 3:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-05 5:50 ` Jeff King
2009-01-04 8:21 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2009-01-04 12:40 ` Karl Chen
2009-01-04 12:49 ` demerphq
2009-01-04 17:55 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2009-01-04 18:02 ` Adeodato Simó
2009-01-04 21:48 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-01-04 10:07 ` Alexandre Dulaunoy
2009-01-04 12:31 ` demerphq
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