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Mon, 07 Jul 2025 01:52:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Mon, 7 Jul 2025 04:52:24 -0400 From: Karthik Nayak In-Reply-To: <87ecuwc5n4.fsf@igel.home> References: <20250701-306-git-for-each-ref-pagination-v1-0-4f0ae7c0688f@gmail.com> <20250704-306-git-for-each-ref-pagination-v2-0-bcde14acdd81@gmail.com> <87ms9kcbtq.fsf@igel.home> <87ikk8c8jr.fsf@igel.home> <87ecuwc5n4.fsf@igel.home> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2025 04:52:24 -0400 X-Gm-Features: Ac12FXz24Ir0uOR8EJaSHhJh2Y-IkmPex6WCBOgwuD5nnb9kay13h0LH9qgIRnU Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] for-each-ref: introduce seeking functionality via '--skip-until' To: Andreas Schwab Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com, ps@pks.im Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="0000000000008459ad063952f6fc" --0000000000008459ad063952f6fc Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Andreas Schwab writes: > On Jul 04 2025, Karthik Nayak wrote: > >> Andreas Schwab writes: >> >>> On Jul 04 2025, Karthik Nayak wrote: >>> >>>> Consider the example >>>> >>>> $ git for-each-ref >>>> refs/heads/bar >>>> refs/heads/foo >>>> refs/heads/main >>>> >>>> $ git for-each-ref --seek=refs/heads/cat >>>> refs/heads/foo >>>> refs/heads/main >>>> >>>> You can see that the reference doesn't have to exist. >>> >>> That is even more confusing. What is the first matching ref if none of >>> them match? Doesn't that mean skipping _all_ refs? >>> >> >> Well the idea is it would seek to the offset where the reference would >> fit in. >> >> This is to ensure that seeks to references which were deleted >> concurrently doesn't leave the client hanging with no results while >> paginating over all references. > > Then don't call it a pattern. Pattern matching is a set operation, > independent of sorting. What you really have is a marker that divides > the sorted list in two parts according to how the marker sorts. And > that makes --start-with more descriptive and less ambiguous. > Fair enough. I'll change the documentation and description in the next version. > -- > Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org > GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 > "And now for something completely different." --0000000000008459ad063952f6fc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 X-Attachment-Id: 649915b3d93ffdf4_0.1 LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBQR1AgU0lHTkFUVVJFLS0tLS0KCmlRSEtCQUVCQ2dBMEZpRUVWODVNZjJOMWNR L0xaY1lHUHRXZkpJNUdqSDhGQW1ocmlzY1dIR3RoY25Sb2FXc3UKTVRnNFFHZHRZV2xzTG1OdmJR QUtDUkErMVo4a2prYU1mOEhKQy85eEhNRlE5eWNiYjI4eGUwckJ2eUJUUFZZMQpPcGpvbUdWYUtx NlBsb3BGUGZIbVk3MnVtc1dlalhzbjJsNTNYYXkvUjZpK0lIQjRFMkRxUHlzaFlnb0IvNVlwClZj Q0tkQmhKT01hbFJieUZXZyt1eHYxNWRmNW5jV2pRbEtLTzU4V2Z2Uy84UHRrbkdQQzU0S21GWVNR ZVlKODcKci9tclllbEY1bTh0QXpwRjR5ZDdLMjdaTjQvRE1wOUF3RDk1bTRWcytjSFVCWjB0MW9j dm9LYklLUldxaUFPUgo4WG10MFVwTjZGbnRDaXZkWk5FVEdjcjRndU5VTTFma0h6V2loL0VsdFox dnVqTWZNNE9lT0NjZjBWeG1oWjJoCjB0WmxZSWhmR1RNL2NCQzNSQ0NQUVVVYUx3VXAvTitxUUpS djhvRlU5ZkF5enljNGpRcnNpQTM4dmQ5U0pmSE0KTzhCaWIrT3d1Z1QvbVZaMitsVTIwRW4zSmJC Nk5jaUxJa1FGQVlGaUZHQ2hTeUtheHU0UWNFek9CWGg0N3UzUgpyYXJnUy9qL1ZzejRqUklqelFv MzRMblZqWUNudDIyYTEzRXlSTUsrSTFrWjBMWTJ2UFNLWFhWSkJMVkpiK1k2CkVjVVJZZVpwMWpZ ZnpDUG5XVkxGb05uRnJMcEgzYmRnMDJPbWZJVT0KPVhWL0sKLS0tLS1FTkQgUEdQIFNJR05BVFVS RS0tLS0t --0000000000008459ad063952f6fc--