From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 00:46:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach parse_commit_buffer about grafting.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508190244350.8817@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <17157.10227.296309.809074@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Hi,

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> Linus Torvalds writes:
> 
> > Paul, I hate to tell you about yet another flag [...]

But why? You're doing such a fine job telling people about flags :-)

> > Umm. git-rev-list really does everything. Rule of thumb: if you _ever_
> > need to look at any other internal git information, you're probably doing
> > something wrong, or you've missed yet another flag ;)
> 
> I still look in [gitdir]/refs/tags/* and [gitdir]/refs/heads/*, what
> flag have I missed? :)  Junio wants me to look at everything under
> [gitdir]/refs, in fact.  Or are the refs not considered internal git
> information?

Time for git-ref-list?

Joking. But there may be a use for a "--refs" flag to git-rev-list, which 
just lists all the refs' names together with their object name (SHA1).

Ciao,
Dscho