From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 05:00:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFD PATCH] revlist/rev-parse: Introduce --heads and --locals revision specifiers
Message-ID: <20100502050054.GE14776@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <83fc6259c434cc63f8e64ddf9ac8f90bae0ab2eb.1272557175.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 08:36:33PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:

> 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

I don't have anything against the concept, but "--heads" is a horrible
name, as it implies refs/heads (which is of course what --branches does.
Yikes!). I know why you picked it, and once you think about it, yes, it
does make some sense (it is all the local and remote heads), but I am
worried that it will cause confusion.

-Peff