From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:12:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] branch: borrow --sort and --count from for-each-ref
Message-ID: <7vvcoaqe9h.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1326805907-19416-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> 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?