From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:04:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 12/13] tag.c: implement '--format' option
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In-Reply-To: <1439661643-16094-13-git-send-email-Karthik.188@gmail.com>

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

> From: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
>
> Implement the '--format' option provided by 'ref-filter'.
> This lets the user list tags as per desired format similar
> to the implementation in 'git for-each-ref'.
>
> Add tests and documentation for the same.

Hmm, do we want "--format" added to "tag -l" and "branch -l" in the
first place?  Scriptors should be using "for-each-ref" plumbing in
the first place, and the point of unifying these three is to share
filtering features among them, which would make "for-each-ref" able
to express what the other two can do.  I'd hesitate to add too much
flexibility to "branch -l" and "tag -l" Porcelains to entice people
to script around them.