Re: [RFD PATCH] revlist/rev-parse: Introduce --heads and --locals revision specifiers

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: May 1, 2010, 19:47 UTC
Message-ID: <4BDC8565.6050308@drmicha.warpmail.net>
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Jakub Narebski venit, vidit, dixit 01.05.2010 21:42:

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> 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 ;)

Michael