Re: [PATCH v4 4/6] revision: add new parameter to exclude hidden refs

> I'm sure this _could_ be made to work, but I wonder if it is worth the
> trouble. If it's not going to work, though, I think we'd want to detect
> the situation and complain, at least for now. And likewise the
> documentation needs to make clear it only works with --all and --glob.
>
> Sorry to have misled in my initial suggestion to turn --visible-refs
> into --exclude-hidden. However, I do still stand by that suggestion.
> Even if we don't make it work with "--branches" now, the user-visible
> framework is still there, so it becomes a matter of extending the
> implementation later, rather than re-designing the options.