Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] for-each-ref: introduce seeking functionality via '--skip-until'

From: Phillip Wood <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2025 15:14:07 +0100

Hi Karthik

On 01/07/2025 16:03, Karthik Nayak wrote:
> 
> This enables efficient pagination workflows like:
>      git for-each-ref --count=100
>      git for-each-ref --count=100 --skip-until=refs/heads/branch-100
>      git for-each-ref --count=100 --skip-until=refs/heads/branch-200

Doesn't that require you to know the name of the ref after the last one 
returned by the previous batch? If the use case here is pagination then 
being able to provide a numeric offset might be a better fit. For example

	git for-each-ref --count=100 --start=200

would show refs 200 to 300

Thanks

Phillip