From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 19:51:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFD PATCH] revlist/rev-parse: Introduce --heads and --locals revision specifiers
Message-ID: <201005012151.06609.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BDC8565.6050308@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber wrote:
> Jakub Narebski venit, vidit, dixit 01.05.2010 21:42:
>> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
>> 
>>> Due to the increasing usage of the ref namespace (e.g. notes, replace)
>>> the revision specifier "--all" becomes decreasingly useful. But
>>> "something like --all" is ineeded for getting a quick overview of
>>> the development state of a repository.
>>>
>>> Introduce --heads and --locals specifiers in order to help with that:
>>>
>>> --heads == HEAD --branches --remotes
>>> --locals = HEAD --branches --tags
>> 
>> Wouldn't new feature (introduced in 1.7.0) of --glob=<glob-pattern>
>> be enough?
>> 
> 
> You can already use the exact expressions which I wrote above
> ("--branches --tags" etc.). The point is to have short ones for the most
> useful cases.  And "--all" used to be useful.
> 
> It's just that we don't have aliases for rev notation ;)

Ah, sorry, I have misunderstood the goal of your change.

Seems like a good idea.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland