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Re: [PATCH] gitk: fix --all behavior combined with --not

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 9, 2019, 05:16 UTC
Message-ID
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In-Reply-To
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> The "--all" in rev-list family (including "git log") unconditionally
> include HEAD.  The glitch here is that "--all" in rev-parse does
> not.  And 4d5e1b1319 was an attempt to "fix" that, i.e. make "--all"
> imply "HEAD".

And it becomes really tempting to get rid of that "let's tweak --all" hack and declare that "rev-parse --all" is simply buggy, proposing a simple "bugfix" that may look like this (not even compile tested, but you get the idea).

 builtin/rev-parse.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/builtin/rev-parse.c b/builtin/rev-parse.c
index f8bbe6d47e..94f9a6efba 100644
--- a/builtin/rev-parse.c
+++ b/builtin/rev-parse.c
@@ -766,6 +766,7 @@ int cmd_rev_parse(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			}
 			if (!strcmp(arg, "--all")) {
 				for_each_ref(show_reference, NULL);
+				head_ref(show_reference, NULL);
 				clear_ref_exclusion(&ref_excludes);
 				continue;
 			}
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  1. gitk: fix --all behavior combined with --notHeiko Voigt, Jul 4, 2019
  2. Johannes SchindelinJul 4, 2019
  3. Heiko VoigtJul 4, 2019
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 8, 2019
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 9, 2019
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 9, 2019
  7. Heiko VoigtJul 10, 2019
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2019
  9. Heiko VoigtJul 11, 2019
  10. Junio C HamanoJul 11, 2019
  11. Johannes SixtJul 11, 2019
  12. Heiko VoigtJul 10, 2019

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