From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:33:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] show-ref: add --unresolved option
Message-ID: <20240306003343.GA3797463@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <a3de2b7b-4603-4604-a4d2-938a598e312e@gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 03:30:35PM +0000, Phillip Wood wrote:

> Hi John
> 
> On 04/03/2024 22:51, John Cai via GitGitGadget wrote:
> > From: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
> > 
> > For reftable development, it would be handy to have a tool to provide
> > the direct value of any ref whether it be a symbolic ref or not.
> > Currently there is git-symbolic-ref, which only works for symbolic refs,
> > and git-rev-parse, which will resolve the ref. Let's add a --unresolved
> > option that will only take one ref and return whatever it points to
> > without dereferencing it.
> 
> "--unresolved" makes me think of merge conflicts. I wonder if
> "--no-dereference" would be clearer.

We have "--no-deref" in "git update-ref" already. It is probably better
to stay consistent.

-Peff