Re: [PATCH 4/8] rev-parse: teach "git rev-parse --symbolic" to print the full ref name

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Oct 27, 2007, 21:53 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710271748440.7345@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <11935038083369-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de>

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

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> "git rev-parse --symbolic" used to return the ref name as it was
> specified on the command line. This is changed to returning the
> full matched ref name, i.e. "git rev-parse --symbolic master"
> now typically returns "refs/heads/master".
> 
> Note, this changes output of an established command. It might
> break existing setups. I checked that it does not break scripts
> in git.git.

I think this makes the --create option to push unnecessary, as interactive users could use a suggested explicit value (or whatever they actually meant), while scripts could replace $name with $(git rev-parse --symbolic $name) as easily as they could add --create, and by more explicit as to what they're doing.

	-Daniel
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