Re: [PATCH 1/8] ahead-behind: create empty builtin

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 8, 2023, 22:56 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq4jqusvhq.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <7328e095-83c6-dd33-1d36-9220612e99c0@github.com>

Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com> writes:

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> What I have yet to determine is that 'git for-each-ref' does
> not have significant overhead due to how it's implementation is
> built around listing "all refs that match" versus an explicit
> input list of refs. There's also the concept of '--stdin' that
> would be interesting to interact with.

Yeah, we could add --no-sort to allow streaming better and --stdin to feed list of refs to work on, if the end-user facing interface based on --format is what people find reasonable.

> I'll continue to investigate this path and report back when I
> have more of this information. This is as far I as I could get
> today.

Thanks.  It is a very interesting experiment.