From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 03:51:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] log: add option to choose which refs to decorate
Message-ID: <xmqqpo8whxot.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <9168f7b8-3b9d-a933-e542-ae5b741cb824@gmail.com>

Rafael Ascensão <rafa.almas@gmail.com> writes:

> Would checking the output of ref_exists() make sense here?
> By that I mean, only add a trailing '/*' if the ref doesn't exist.

I do not think it would hurt, but it is not immediately obvious if
the benefit of doing so outweighs the cost of having to make an
extra call to ref_exists().