From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 14:18:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] reflog: remove i18n legos in pruning message
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AAnDDGSusfd2EaKW-sj=kM=xE5tET0RprEyszOBYOztg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120531141020.GD10523@burratino>

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>
>>                                                        Maybe adding
>> --plumbing for scripts?
>
> That wouldn't take care of existing scripts, and new scripts should
> use LC_ALL=C to defend themselves when they don't want to be impacted
> by i18n.
>
> Do you have some other reason in mind that a script should choose to
> pass --plumbing here?  Is it an output format flag specific to 'git
> reflog expire', in the spirit of status --porcelain, or a more generic
> "I care about output stability" flag that spans multiple commands?

I was thinking (but without checking) that this is the only way a
script can check for expired reflog entries. Maybe something more
script friendly, like ref names only.
-- 
Duy