On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 01:32:26PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > So I think it's conceptually consistent to always show a subset. > > OK. Then I agree with you that it is a good approach to first adopt > core.* knobs that universally apply, and add specialized ones as > they are needed later. Thanks. There's one other major decision for this series, I think. Do you have an opinion on whether for_each_alternate_refs() interface should stop passing back refnames? By the "they may not even exist" rationale in this sub-thread, I think it's probably foolish for any caller to actually depend on the names being meaningful. We need to decide now because the idea of which data is relevant is getting baked into the documented alternateRefsCmd output format. -Peff