From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:24:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] rev-parse: teach "git rev-parse --symbolic" to print the full ref name
Message-ID: <7v640rwst5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <79CE31EE-0975-48EB-8B3E-FC9D6A8EB3E4@zib.de>

Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:

> So the idea of --symbolic is really to return the argv as is?
> No change whatsoever allowed. Why would someone need this?
> Is it only for convenience when writing shell code?

rev-parse _is_ for convenience for writing shell scripts, to
sift various parameters into "rev-list arguments" and "non
rev-list arguments".