From: Paul Mackerras Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 00:29:39 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach parse_commit_buffer about grafting. Message-ID: <17157.10227.296309.809074@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > Paul, I hate to tell you about yet another flag to git-rev-list, but did > you realize that in addition to all the other magic flags, there's a flag > called "--parents"? Cool. I didn't realize that. The current version uses it now. > Umm. git-rev-list really does everything. Rule of thumb: if you _ever_ > need to look at any other internal git information, you're probably doing > something wrong, or you've missed yet another flag ;) I still look in [gitdir]/refs/tags/* and [gitdir]/refs/heads/*, what flag have I missed? :) Junio wants me to look at everything under [gitdir]/refs, in fact. Or are the refs not considered internal git information? Paul.