Re: git-rev-parse --symbolic-abbrev-name

Karl Chen <quarl@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:

> ... you really think "branchfoo" instead of
> "refs/heads/branchfoo" is a narrow special case?

Of course it is narrower. There are namespaces other than "heads" under refs, and not everybody is interested in branches.

> obviously all those people posting on blogs don't know about it :)

Yes, and that won't be helped by any new option to the plumbing.

The above two does not necessarily mean that it is useless to add a new option to help a narrow special case that is common, though.