Re: [PATCH] branch: borrow --sort and --count from for-each-ref

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 18, 2012, 01:20 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8An5oYv_Ki2oFezykSDFXmprPq07G7G4xq+srhcpP+OHg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vvcoaqe9h.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

2012/1/18 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:

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> 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?

coloring, current branch marking, "branch -v", more accessible command (I did not know about for-each-ref until Jeff told me)

-- 
Duy