Re: [PATCH 0/2] builtin/show-ref.c: support `--count` for limiting output

From: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Date: Jun 7, 2022, 19:41 UTC
Message-ID: <73a973fa-cb44-b92e-e8c0-b68e14b4bd34@github.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk09t4cun.fsf@gitster.g>

On 6/6/2022 7:00 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:
> 
>> If you're strongly opposed to having `show-ref` match `for-each-ref`'s
>> `--count` option, I won't be too sad. But I'm not in a huge rush to
>> replace this series with `git --pipe-to-head-N=<n>` either, FWIW.
> 
> Heh, to me "git --pipe-to-head-N=<n>" smells equally absurd, too ;-)

I wonder if we could teach Git to skip an extra process if we see

	git -c "core.pager=head -n=<N>" ...

Thanks, -Stolee