Re: [PATCH 2/3] ls-remote: introduce --branches and deprecate --heads

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 3, 2024, 21:48 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqzfs11yv4.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cQGtgaz3czkg+Faj+CL_-TD0BdbEc1hg6eJuq_yZmvg9w@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

> Unless there is a concrete plan to free up --heads to mean something
> else in the future, I wonder why we need to warn about this at all,

There is no plan to repurpose "--heads", but this is primarily to make sure "-h" cannot mean anything but "please give me a short help".

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