Subject: Re: [RFD PATCH] revlist/rev-parse: Introduce --heads and --locals revision specifiers

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 12:42:15 -0700 (PDT)

Michael J Gruber <[email-masked]> writes:

> Due to the increasing usage of the ref namespace (e.g. notes, replace)
> the revision specifier "--all" becomes decreasingly useful. But
> "something like --all" is ineeded for getting a quick overview of
> the development state of a repository.
> 
> Introduce --heads and --locals specifiers in order to help with that:
> 
> --heads == HEAD --branches --remotes
> --locals = HEAD --branches --tags

Wouldn't new feature (introduced in 1.7.0) of --glob=<glob-pattern>
be enough?

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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