Re: [PATCH] show-ref: add --unresolved option

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 6, 2024, 02:19 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqv860umo9.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20240306003343.GA3797463@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 03:30:35PM +0000, Phillip Wood wrote:
>
>> Hi John
>> 
>> On 04/03/2024 22:51, John Cai via GitGitGadget wrote:
>> > From: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
>> > 
>> > For reftable development, it would be handy to have a tool to provide
>> > the direct value of any ref whether it be a symbolic ref or not.
>> > Currently there is git-symbolic-ref, which only works for symbolic refs,
>> > and git-rev-parse, which will resolve the ref. Let's add a --unresolved
>> > option that will only take one ref and return whatever it points to
>> > without dereferencing it.
>> 
>> "--unresolved" makes me think of merge conflicts. I wonder if
>> "--no-dereference" would be clearer.
>
> We have "--no-deref" in "git update-ref" already. It is probably better
> to stay consistent.

That's an excellent precedent.  Thanks.