Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > If I read builtin-show-ref.c correctly, it _always_ calls > for_each_ref(show_ref, NULL); Ok, that settles it. If there is a reason to have --verify, we should really special case it. There is no point in looping, because verify does not do the tail match (which could cause ambiguity) and its answer should be either "yes it is there" or "no there is no such ref". - 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