From: Marco Costalba Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:57:15 GMT Subject: Re: Possible BUG with git-rev-list --all in a StGit repository Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vzmadl5b0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On 11/27/06, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Marco Costalba" writes: > > > Could a possible '--all-branches' new option come to rescue? > > I doubt it. Next thing people would start talking about is what > to do with the remote tracking branches, and what we are talking > about is rev-list, one of the lower level of plumbing that would > be better left without knowing much about the Porcelain's use of > refs/ namespaces. > > If you (as a Porcelain) want to get all refs under refs/heads/, > there are (unfortunately) two ways to get that list. I would > suggest obtain the refs you want that way, pass them as command > line arguments to rev-list. > Unfortunatly that does not work in case a branch and a tag have the same name. I was bitten by this trying to do what you now suggest, there were a tag and a branch called 'test', and calling git-rev-list master origin test raised a warning. Only among the _same_ 'family' (branches, tags, etc..) unique names are enforced.