Re: [PATCH] git-filter-branch could be confused by similar names

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 5, 2008, 16:03 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801051601490.10101@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7vr6gxjpyn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > It works only if the name "unambiguous" for git show-ref, which 
> > interprets refname differently than rev-list as I wrote above. 
> > Nevertheless, I believe we can use 'git show-ref' if we try something 
> > like this:
> 
> Ahh.
> 
> But at that point I would say that exposing the refname dwimming
> logic to the scripts could be a much cleaner solution.

I considered that when ripping the script from cogito, but it seemed to me at that time that not requiring an up-to-date git for testing the script would be better.

Now is a different situation, however, so I agree.

Ciao, Dscho