From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:25:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ref-filter: remove unused ref_format member
Message-ID: <xmqqjzyy2rdl.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqo7oa2rjs.fsf@gitster.g>

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

> Øystein Walle <oystwa@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> use_rest was added in b9dee075eb (ref-filter: add %(rest) atom,
>> 2021-07-26) but was never used. As far as I can tell it was used in a
>> later patch that was submitted to the mailing list but never applied.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Øystein Walle <oystwa@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> Would be nice to have a link to the email thread here, but I don't know
>> how.
>
>
> Here is a link to the patch that led to that commit you cited:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/207cc5129649e767036d8467ea7c884c3f664cc7.1627270010.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/
>
> It indeed is cumbersome to add, as the Message-Ids for patches from
> GitGitGadget tend to be ultra long.
>
> But b9dee075eb was the last one in the 5-patch series; I do
> not see any "later patch there in the thread.

I think there was a follow-up RFC series that was written to use the
value of the member, cf.

https://lore.kernel.org/git/9c5fddf6885875ccd3ce3f047bb938c77d9bbca2.1628842990.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/

but it seems there was no review on the series.