From: Matthieu Moy Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 10:20:36 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/10] ref-filter: add %(refname:shortalign=X) option Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Karthik Nayak writes: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Matthieu Moy > wrote: > >> I think this would deserve a test and documentation. Even though your >> motivation is for an internal implementation, some users may want to use >> the feature in 'git for-each-ref --format=...'. >> > > I didn't want to include documentation as this is mostly for internal use, > but will add with tests. You need it for internal use, but it's still available to the users, and may actually turn out to be useful to users. Actually, you are rewritting tag and branch based on the internal C API, but it should be possible to write similar commands based on the command-line interface and by looking at the documentation. It's part of the philosophy of Git ("toolkit design") to have plumbing commands that allow writting high-level commands through scripting, or custom commands through aliases. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/