Re: What's cooking in git/spearce.git (topics)

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Oct 17, 2007, 03:20 UTC
Message-ID: <20071017032009.GS13801@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071016195744.GB32132@closure.lan>

Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

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> I've recently started trying to use some of the scripts in "todo" to
> send similar "What's cooking" messages, and started wondering if they
> were what Junio actually used in production to send his notes.  For
> example, the scripts don't work particularly well if the refs have
> been packed.  So I had to make changes such as these so they would
> work for me.

I think Junio just makes sure he doesn't pack his refs.  :-)

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> diff --git a/PU b/PU
> index 4b4be2b..4643a42 100755
> --- a/PU
> +++ b/PU
> @@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ case "$#" in
>  0)
>  	# interactive ;-)
>  	shift
> -	HH=`cd .git/refs/heads && find -type f |
> -	sed -e 's/^\.\///' \
> +	HH=`git-show-ref --heads | awk '{print $2}' |\

Perhaps `git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' refs/heads` is the better change here as then you can avoid the pipe into awk. We still need the sed to strip the refs/heads/ off the results though.

> +	sed -e 's;refs/heads/;;' \
>  	    -e '/^naster$/d' -e '/^master$/d' -e '/^maint$/d' -e '/^pu$/d'`
>  	while test "$HH"
>  	do

I'm actually applying it with the show-ref variant and will wind up pushing it into my tree later tonight. Because I do pack my refs.

-- 
Shawn.