From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:45:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cvsimport move over to using git for each ref to read refs
Message-ID: <7vwt7yij12.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <45116888.4050806@shadowen.org>

Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> writes:

>> About the quoting and parsing, language specific quoting mode is
>> meant for git-for-each-ref to produce a string that can be eval'ed
>> in the host language.  Think of the command as a tool to write a
>> short program for you.
>
> Thanks for the education.  Very simple, and very powerful.  I knew there
> was a reason for it out there.  Will respin a V3 patch in a bit.

This probably showed that my initial description and example for
the feature found in Documentation/git-for-each-ref was lacking.

I would appreciate a separate patch to enhance it if you are so
inclined.