On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 10:16:50PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > The "--all" in rev-list family (including "git log") unconditionally
> > include HEAD. The glitch here is that "--all" in rev-parse does
> > not. And 4d5e1b1319 was an attempt to "fix" that, i.e. make "--all"
> > imply "HEAD".
>
> And it becomes really tempting to get rid of that "let's tweak
> --all" hack and declare that "rev-parse --all" is simply buggy,
> proposing a simple "bugfix" that may look like this (not even
> compile tested, but you get the idea).
Thanks for this nice pointer.
Lets think about this a little more, because this would give us a proper
solution. There would be a need to be backwards compatible to not break
peoples scripts right? The documentation says --all "Show all refs found
in refs/" so IMO we need some extra option that changes the '--all'
behavior. How about '--all-include-head'. Then e.g.
git rev-parse --all-include-head --all --not origin/master
would include the head ref like you proposed below?
What do you think? Or would you rather go the route of changing
rev-parse behavior?
Cheers Heiko
>
> builtin/rev-parse.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/rev-parse.c b/builtin/rev-parse.c
> index f8bbe6d47e..94f9a6efba 100644
> --- a/builtin/rev-parse.c
> +++ b/builtin/rev-parse.c
> @@ -766,6 +766,7 @@ int cmd_rev_parse(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> }
> if (!strcmp(arg, "--all")) {
> for_each_ref(show_reference, NULL);
> + head_ref(show_reference, NULL);
> clear_ref_exclusion(&ref_excludes);
> continue;
> }
