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Re: [PATCH 10/15] for-each-ref: introduce format specifier %>(*) and %<(*)

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 5, 2013, 10:15 UTC
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On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Duy Nguyen wrote:
>> I mentioned it before and I do it again. This is not optimal.
>
> Yeah, I'll attempt to fix this, but it's not urgent.
Agreed it's not urgent.
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>> But I guess it's ok in this
>> shape unless you run this over hundreds of refs.
>
> Oh, you can run over a hundred refs just fine, for scripting purposes;
> but why would you want to run over a hundred refs with a pretty that
> includes %>(*) or %<(*)?

Good point. "git for-each-ref|wc -l" on my git repo says I have 673 refs. A naive use for-each-ref --pretty without any ref patterns could happen. But I guess people will quickly learn to limit the ref selection soon after doing that :-) -- Duy

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Message 20 of 30 in “Towards a more awesome git-branch”
  1. 00/15 Towards a more awesome git-branchRamkumar Ramachandra, Jun 4, 2013
  2. 01/15 for-each-ref, quote: convert *_quote_print -> *_quote_bufRamkumar Ramachandra, Jun 4, 2013
  3. 02/15 for-each-ref: don't print out elements directlyRamkumar Ramachandra, Jun 4, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 4, 2013
  5. Duy NguyenJun 4, 2013
  6. 03/15 tar-tree: remove dependency on sq_quote_print()Ramkumar Ramachandra, Jun 4, 2013
  7. 04/15 quote: remove sq_quote_print()Ramkumar Ramachandra, Jun 4, 2013
  8. 05/15 pretty: extend pretty_print_context with callbackRamkumar Ramachandra, Jun 4, 2013
  9. 06/15 pretty: limit recursion in format_commit_one()Ramkumar Ramachandra, Jun 4, 2013
  10. 07/15 pretty: allow passing NULL commit to format_commit_message()Ramkumar Ramachandra, Jun 4, 2013
  11. 08/15 for-each-ref: get --pretty using format_commit_messageRamkumar Ramachandra, Jun 4, 2013
  12. Eric SunshineJun 4, 2013
  13. Duy NguyenJun 5, 2013
  14. Junio C HamanoJun 5, 2013
  15. Duy NguyenJun 6, 2013
  16. 09/15 for-each-ref: teach verify_format() about pretty's syntaxRamkumar Ramachandra, Jun 4, 2013
  17. 10/15 for-each-ref: introduce format specifier %>(*) and %<(*)Ramkumar Ramachandra, Jun 4, 2013
  18. Duy NguyenJun 4, 2013
  19. Ramkumar RamachandraJun 5, 2013
  20. Duy NguyenJun 5, 2013
  21. 11/15 for-each-ref: introduce %(HEAD) markerRamkumar Ramachandra, Jun 4, 2013
  22. 12/15 for-each-ref: introduce %(upstream:track[short])Ramkumar Ramachandra, Jun 4, 2013
  23. Eric SunshineJun 4, 2013
  24. 13/15 for-each-ref: improve responsiveness of %(upstream:track)Ramkumar Ramachandra, Jun 4, 2013
  25. 14/15 pretty: introduce get_pretty_userformatRamkumar Ramachandra, Jun 4, 2013
  26. 15/15 for-each-ref: use get_pretty_userformat in --prettyRamkumar Ramachandra, Jun 4, 2013
  27. Duy NguyenJun 4, 2013
  28. Eric SunshineJun 4, 2013
  29. Duy NguyenJun 4, 2013
  30. Ramkumar RamachandraJun 5, 2013

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