On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 06:39:05PM -0500, Eric Sunshine wrote: > > Yeah, "strip=2" would also get the job done, and extends more naturally > > to the branch case. > > > > To be honest, I cannot imagine anybody using anything _but_ strip=2, but > > maybe there are special cases, like: > > > > git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:strip=3)' refs/heads/jk/ > > > > to get my list of topics, sans initials. > > What if the option was named ":stripprefix=" in its most general form: > > %(refname:stripprefix=refs/tags/) > > with plain: > > %(refname:stripprefix) > > shorthand for ":stripprefix=refs/*/" or something? That would work, though I was really hoping not to get into something as complicated as globbing. I'm not sure it really buys us that much here. -Peff -- 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