Re: [PATCH 2/2] ref-filter: support filtering of operational refs

[Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 09:52:33AM +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> > I tend to agree that the special empty pattern would be a good shorthand
> > for listing all references underneath refs/, including any top-level
> > psuedo-refs.
> >
> > But I don't think that I quite follow what Karthik is saying here.
> > for-each-ref returns the union of references that match the given
> > pattern(s), not their intersection. So if you wanted to list just the
> > psudo-refs ending in '_HEAD', you'd do:
> >
> >   $ git for-each-ref "*_HEAD"
> >
> > I think if you wanted to list all pseudo-refs, calling the option
> > `--pseudo-refs` seems reasonable. But if you want to list some subset of
> > psueod-refs matching a given pattern, you should specify that pattern
> > directly.
>
> Where I think this proposal falls short is if you have refs outside of
> the "refs/" hierarchy. Granted, this is nothing that should usually
> happen nowadays. But I think we should safeguard us for the future:

Hmm. Maybe I misspoke, but I was thinking that `--pseudo-refs` would
imply that we list all references (regardless of whether they appear in
the top-level refs/ hierarchy). But perhaps I'm misunderstanding what
you're trying to accomplish here.

Thanks,
Taylor