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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, bturner@atlassian•com,
	pedrorijo91@gmail•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] ls-remote: document --refs option
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 12:01:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqsi1ud5dk.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160118193140.GB1009@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:31:40 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 05:57:15PM +0100, Thomas Gummerer wrote:
>
>> +--refs::
>> +	Do not show peeled tags or pseudo-refs like HEAD or MERGE_HEAD
>> +	in the output.
>> +
>
> Minor nit: we show whatever the other side sends us, which is the refs,
> HEAD, and peeled tags. So mentioning MERGE_HEAD isn't wrong (if the
> server _did_ send it to us, we would omit it), but it is a bit
> misleading.
>
> I think saying "pseudo-refs like HEAD" is OK; even though we know it is
> only HEAD in the current server implementation, it better describes what
> the client side is doing.

Good point, I think.  We probably would want to fix the glossary
entry of the word that is not spelled with a dash in between the
two word components (or update the above to spell it as a single
word).

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-18 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-17 11:03 [PATCH 0/4] ls-remote: introduce symref argument Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-17 11:03 ` [PATCH 1/4] ls-remote: document --quiet option Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-17 14:47   ` Jeff King
2016-01-17 17:13     ` Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-17 11:04 ` [PATCH 2/4] ls-remote: fix synopsis Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-17 11:04 ` [PATCH 3/4] ls-remote: use parse-options api Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-17 14:44   ` Jeff King
2016-01-17 17:27     ` Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-17 11:04 ` [PATCH 4/4] builtin/ls-remote: add support for showing symrefs Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-17 11:16   ` Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-17 11:04 ` [PATCH 4/4] ls-remote: " Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-17 15:15   ` Jeff King
2016-01-17 17:38     ` Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-17 22:14     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-17 11:14 ` [PATCH 0/4] ls-remote: introduce symref argument Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-17 15:16 ` Jeff King
2016-01-17 17:39   ` Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-17 22:15   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-18 16:57 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] ls-remote: introduce symrefs argument Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-18 16:57   ` [PATCH v2 1/5] ls-remote: document --quiet option Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-18 16:57   ` [PATCH v2 2/5] ls-remote: document --refs option Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-18 19:31     ` Jeff King
2016-01-18 20:01       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-01-18 21:39         ` Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-18 16:57   ` [PATCH v2 3/5] ls-remote: fix synopsis Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-18 16:57   ` [PATCH v2 4/5] ls-remote: use parse-options api Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-18 19:33     ` Jeff King
2016-01-18 16:57   ` [PATCH v2 5/5] ls-remote: add support for showing symrefs Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-18 19:52     ` Jeff King
2016-01-18 19:53       ` Jeff King
2016-01-18 22:09         ` Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-18 22:09       ` Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-18 22:20         ` Jeff King
2016-01-18 22:35           ` Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-18 20:09     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-18 21:48       ` Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-18 19:53   ` [PATCH v2 0/5] ls-remote: introduce symrefs argument Jeff King
2016-01-18 23:20   ` [PATCH v3 0/5] ls-remote: introduce symref argument Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-18 23:20     ` [PATCH v3 1/5] ls-remote: document --quiet option Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-18 23:20     ` [PATCH v3 2/5] ls-remote: document --refs option Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-18 23:20     ` [PATCH v3 3/5] ls-remote: fix synopsis Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-18 23:20     ` [PATCH v3 4/5] ls-remote: use parse-options api Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-18 23:20     ` [PATCH v3 5/5] ls-remote: add support for showing symrefs Thomas Gummerer
2016-01-19 18:14     ` [PATCH v3 0/5] ls-remote: introduce symref argument Junio C Hamano

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