From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:36:33 GMT
Subject: Re: git-rev-parse --symbolic-abbrev-name
Message-ID: <7v63kuyibi.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <quack.20090104T0434.lthfxjz1c8x_-_@roar.cs.berkeley.edu>

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.