From: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 07:35:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [GSoC] Week 1: Unification of 'for-each-ref', 'tag -l' and 'branch -l'
Message-ID: <556FFFBA.4030004@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150603210833.GA32181@peff.net>

On 06/04/2015 02:38 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 06:08:50PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
> > Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> Matthieu Moy suggested that I work on the unification of these
> >> commands let both the implementations stay where the user can select
> >> the implementation to be used
> >
> > Just to be clear: my advice is the above with "user" = "caller of the
> > API", not "human being using Git". In other words, "git branch
> > --contains" and "git tag --contains" would still be using two different
> > algorithms, but the user wouldn't notice (except for performance).
>
> Yeah, I think that is sensible. It should be a "feature" of the
> ref-filter that can hopefully go away one day (when we have a sensible
> implementation that works for both; this is something I've been meaning
> to push forward, but Karthik should not have to wait on me).
>
> -Peff
>
Sounds good, Thanks Jeff.

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Regards,
Karthik