From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2025 14:52:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] for-each-ref: introduce seeking functionality via '--skip-until'
Message-ID: <87ikk8c8jr.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <CAOLa=ZS0uP+5xso_SEG2GJZHeac-0F2_wMJKtvbFj_wROKbBkw@mail.gmail.com>

On Jul 04 2025, Karthik Nayak wrote:

> Consider the example
>
>   $ git for-each-ref
>   refs/heads/bar
>   refs/heads/foo
>   refs/heads/main
>
>   $ git for-each-ref --seek=refs/heads/cat
>   refs/heads/foo
>   refs/heads/main
>
> You can see that the reference doesn't have to exist.

That is even more confusing.  What is the first matching ref if none of
them match?  Doesn't that mean skipping _all_ refs?

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