Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> for-each-ref let's you limit the refs by leading path, so I do >> not think "next if" inside the loop is needed if you say >> >> for-each-ref --perl --format=$fmt refs/heads > > Stupid boy :) >> >> Any reason you did not like my version that allows you to get >> rid of the while() loop altogether? (hint: replace eval in my >> example with "print" and see what you are evaling) > > To my mind we avoid the 'mozilla repo' issue of 1000's of heads > busting some string length limit, or requiring some _vast_ string to > hold it (as perl is likely to cope). Given we are sifting a small > percentage of the data out of it. Quite valid reasoning. Will apply V3 with refs/heads filtering added; no need to resend. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html