Re: [PATCH] for-each-ref: `:short` format for `refname`

> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 21:10, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> ...
>> You can still get ambiguous names.  Avoiding them requires going
>> through all refs and building their short forms, then using the
>> full ref name for any ref which had more than one name shorten to
>> the same string.  Ugly, but implementable, and probably something
>> that should be considered.
>
> What about: try the list backwards until the first match, than try the
> matched part (this what %.*s matched) with the forward list, if both
> give the same pattern, its not disambiguous. If not try the next
> pattern backwards.