From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 18:08:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] for-each-ref: add '--no-symbolic' option
Message-ID: <xmqq1rwpl4uz.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAAikoA+MvORDJ6y=VSk_1s6v7110UeOfU2X2G7=9ChV+m+COxQ@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Freese <ericdfreese@gmail.com> writes:

> However, this still prints an empty line for each ref that does not match the
> condition. This can be cleaned up by piping through `grep .`, but what would
> you think of adding a new optional flag to git-for-each-ref to prevent it from
> printing empty expanded format strings?

Offhand I do not think of a reason why anybody wants to give a
format that results in a total blank, so it might not even need to
be an optional behaviour, but certainly a new option that triggers
such a behaviour would be a safe thing to add.