From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:09:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] [GSOC] ref-filter: add %(rest) atom
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xr7GCZCk44e_CSYFDr_ow3-BBMUfP5t6=cErFBES4N8+Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <75eb2f6740eb5845afcb7d31956cc5b3e3957f97.1626939557.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 12:40 AM ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
<gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
>
> In order to let "cat-file --batch=%(rest)" use the ref-filter
> interface, add %(rest) atom for ref-filter. Introduce the
> reject_atom() to reject the atom %(rest) for "git for-each-ref",
> "git branch", "git tag" and "git verify-tag".
>

To a reader intimately familiar with cat-file, %(rest) might be
obvious.. but it would help the commit message read more easily if
there was a short explanation of what %(rest) did. It is not obvious
just from the name to me.

Thanks,
Jake