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Re: [PATCH] branch: borrow --sort and --count from for-each-ref

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 17, 2012, 20:12 UTC
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Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
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> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Some time ago, I posted a patch that added date sort to git-branch
>  and Peff pointed me to for-each-ref. I did not look at it closely.
>  Now it does not seem hard to lend some code from for-each-ref to
>  git-branch. I can list 10 most recently touched branches with
>
>   git branch --sort=-committerdate -v --count=10
>
>  kind of cool. I don't think adding --format is necessary because
>  git-branch already has its own formatting.

Why do we even need this for "git branch", when "git for-each-ref refs/heads" already does this?

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  1. branch: borrow --sort and --count from for-each-refNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Jan 17, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 17, 2012
  3. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyJan 18, 2012
  4. branch: borrow --sort and --count from for-each-refNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Feb 4, 2012

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