Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2024, #09; Tue, 27)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 1, 2024, 16:21 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqjzml9b2w.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CAOLa=ZQAxGFDrBmq0+Q77YcfT4hBivRu9oOGZF-r81F49P+00Q@mail.gmail.com>

Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>> * kn/for-all-refs (2024-02-23) 6 commits
>>   (merged to 'next' on 2024-02-27 at aef2406cca)
>>  + for-each-ref: add new option to include root refs
>>  + ref-filter: rename 'FILTER_REFS_ALL' to 'FILTER_REFS_REGULAR'
>>  + refs: introduce `refs_for_each_include_root_refs()`
>>  + refs: extract out `loose_fill_ref_dir_regular_file()`
>>  + refs: introduce `is_pseudoref()` and `is_headref()`
>>  + Merge branch 'ps/reftable-backend' into kn/for-all-refs
>>
>>  "git for-each-ref" filters its output with prefixes given from the
>>  command line, but it did not honor an empty string to mean "pass
>>  everything", which has been corrected.
>>
>>  Will merge to 'master'.
>>  source: <20240223100112.44127-1-karthik.188@gmail.com>
>
> Thanks, the description here needs to be modified since we moved from
> the `an empty string to mean "pass everything"` to providing the
> `--include-root-refs` option.

Good point. I just updated the draft for the next issue of 'whats-cooking.txt' to read like this:

 "git for-each-ref" learned "--include-root-refs" option to show
 even the stuff outside the 'refs/' hierarchy.

Thanks.