From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 04:44:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/9] ref-filter: add %(refname:lalignX) option
Message-ID: <xmqqwpyncedr.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAOLa=ZTkq9NWSu-Bd1iwxYD1yj9+URuQSopc_qjgxSbBv2t2uA@mail.gmail.com>

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

> On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Why would we even want this kind of thing in the first place?  Is
>> this to make it possible to re-implement some option that exists
>> already in 'git branch' or 'git tag' as a thin wrapper on top of
>> this underlying feature?
>> ...
>
> Well this is to support the printing of tag in `git tag -l`,...

OK, then.
Thanks.