Re: [PATCH] show-ref: add --unresolved option

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Date: Mar 5, 2024, 17:01 UTC
Message-ID: <177596a5-dae3-4fb1-902e-7ad74a678ff1@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <a3de2b7b-4603-4604-a4d2-938a598e312e@gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 5, 2024, at 16:30, Phillip Wood wrote:

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> Hi John
>
> On 04/03/2024 22:51, John Cai via GitGitGadget wrote:
>> From: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
>>
>> For reftable development, it would be handy to have a tool to provide
>> the direct value of any ref whether it be a symbolic ref or not.
>> Currently there is git-symbolic-ref, which only works for symbolic refs,
>> and git-rev-parse, which will resolve the ref. Let's add a --unresolved
>> option that will only take one ref and return whatever it points to
>> without dereferencing it.
>
> "--unresolved" makes me think of merge conflicts. I wonder if
> "--no-dereference" would be clearer.

Yeah, a `--no`-style option looks more consistent.