From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:43:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 3/2] rev-parse: --abbrev-ref option to shorten ref name
Message-ID: <7vhc0sh5c1.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1239621626-26952-1-git-send-email-bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>

Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> writes:

> This applies the shorten_unambiguous_ref function to the object name.
> Default mode is controlled by core.warnAmbiguousRefs. Else it is given as
> optional argument to --abbrev-ref={strict|loose}.
>
> This should be faster than 'git for-each-ref --format="%(refname:short)" <ref>'
> for single refs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
> ---
> Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
>
> Can someone check, if I need to alter the filter, thanks.

I do not think so.

This --abbrev-ref option is similar to --symbolic in that how a ref from
the command line, if any, is output, and should not change the filter at
all.  For example, "rev-parse --abbrev-ref master -M" shouldn't filter -M
out by implying --revs-only.