From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:40:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-parse --namespace
Message-ID: <20100117164057.GA20554@Knoppix>
In-Reply-To: <20100117162712.GB7153@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:27:12AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 03:45:31PM +0200, Ilari Liusvaara wrote:
> 
> > Add --namespace=<namespace> option to rev-parse and everything that
> > accepts its options. This option matches all refs in some subnamespace
> > of refs hierarchy, and is useful for selecting everything reachable from
> > one or few, but not all remotes (--namespace=remotes/foo).
> 
> If I understand it correctly, isn't the same as
> 
>   git for-each-ref refs/remotes/foo

Nope. Compare:

'git log --branches --not --namespace=remotes/origin' 

with whatever you would have to currently type...

-Ilari