From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 21:07:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 03/20] ref-filter: add rest formatting option
Message-ID: <20190228210753.GC12723@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <0102016915f49a49-6f817c1d-5b1c-47ac-98c3-18a124a733eb-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 04:05:45PM +0000, Olga Telezhnaya wrote:

> Add rest option that allows to add string into ref_array_item
> and then put it into specific place of the output.
> We are using it now in cat-file command: user could put anything
> in the input after objectname, and it will appear in the output
> in place of %(rest).

This would make:

  git for-each-ref --format='%(rest)'

do something. But what (and could it ever be useful or meaningful)?

Should we add an option to ref-filter to enable/disable this
placeholder?

-Peff