Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] Add alias option to git branch

From: Kenneth Cochran <kenneth.cochran101@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 4, 2019, 19:52 UTC
Message-ID: <CAJ145vUOYcMvozYtWx2QJOWCSGw__-Cs3w_sxKhwwtHFQt-qHA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <95defc95-c558-3487-d418-e65f7db5dda5@orcon.net.nz>

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 1:34 PM Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz> wrote:

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> 5/03/19 5:23 AM, Kenneth Cochran wrote:
> > Adding Phil for comments
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> Thank you for following this up, Kenneth.  I'll do some testing with
> your patch sometime soon.

Thanks! Any feedback is appreciated.

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> I've realised that the last version of my script that I posted to the
> mailing list was buggy, and that in wanting to hold off sending another
> version for a little while in case I found more bugs, I in fact failed
> to send a fixed version at all.
>
> This is probably not relevant to your patches; but just in case,
> the up to date code for that script is here:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/23532744/324105

This stack overflow post was actually what led me to the git mailing list in the first place :)

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> and the fixes since v1.11 were:
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> * Change incorrect uses of git show-ref, introduced by v1.10 (including
>   effective regression of v1.08), to use git symbolic-ref instead.
>
> * Fix the option handling for '--', and added it to the help text.
>
>
> -Phil

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 1:34 PM Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz> wrote:

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> 5/03/19 5:23 AM, Kenneth Cochran wrote:
> > Adding Phil for comments
>
> Thank you for following this up, Kenneth.  I'll do some testing with
> your patch sometime soon.
>
> I've realised that the last version of my script that I posted to the
> mailing list was buggy, and that in wanting to hold off sending another
> version for a little while in case I found more bugs, I in fact failed
> to send a fixed version at all.
>
> This is probably not relevant to your patches; but just in case,
> the up to date code for that script is here:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/23532744/324105
>
> and the fixes since v1.11 were:
>
> * Change incorrect uses of git show-ref, introduced by v1.10 (including
>   effective regression of v1.08), to use git symbolic-ref instead.
>
> * Fix the option handling for '--', and added it to the help text.
>
>
> -Phil