Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] revparse: add `--exclude-hidden=` option

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 8, 2022, 14:44 UTC
Message-ID: <Y2prQqR2Ka3nHdWP@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <68a5e563045f1b3e6db7304206d95ebebcacbe6f.1667823042.git.ps@pks.im>

On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 01:16:39PM +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

> Add a new `--exclude-hidden=` option that is similar to the one we just
> added to git-rev-list(1). Given a seciton name `transfer`, `uploadpack`
> or `receive` as argument, it causes us to exclude all references that
> would be hidden by the respective `$seciton.hideRefs` configuration.

Thanks for adding this one in. I feel like rev-parse isn't used all that much these days, and in a sense, we could just let it fall behind what rev-list could do and probably nobody would care. But since it's only a few lines, keeping parity with rev-list is nice to have.

-Peff

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