Re: [PATCH 4/6] [GSOC] ref-filter: add %(rest) atom and --rest option

>
> ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > First of all, although %(rest) is meaningless in ordinary circumstances,
> > ref-filter must learn %(rest), it is impossible for us to leave the parsing
> > of %(rest) in cat-file.c alone.
>
> Oh, there is no question about that.
>

>
> I don't understand.  Why do you even need to add --reject?  Why
> would any user would want to use it with for-each-ref?
>
> Without any end-user input, %(rest) for for-each-ref would not make
> sense, and %(refname) for cat-file --batch would not make sense, I
> would imagine, so there is no need to be able to tell --reject=rest
> to for-each-ref.  It is not like giving --no-reject=rest to for-each-ref
> and make it interpolate to an empty string is a useful feature anyway,
> so I do not see a need for such an option.