From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2023 01:32:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] for-each-ref: add option to fully dereference tags
Message-ID: <xmqq5y2b3e5p.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfs1f3eji.fsf@gitster.g>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> You have to feed it to "git cat-file tag" and parse the contents of
> the tag obbject yourself to manually peel further levels of onion.

Alternatively, you can drive "git show -s" with "--format" and you
probably can produce a machine parseable output.

But it does not change the argument fundamentally.  The point is
that "for-each-ref --format=%(*field)" that peels only the first
layer would not have helped all that much, if somebody really cares
about each levels of nested tags.  They would have been relying on
a solution to deal with the second and further layers anyway, and
that solution would have been working with the first layer, too.