Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> B.t.w. you can probably speed up & simplify your script a lot by making
> use of IFS="" in the shell and not calling N for-each-ref commands when
> it seems to me that one invocation would do. Just dump the N fields you
> need split on some token, and split on that token in your loop.
A hidden gem in for-each-ref is its ability to quote the placeholder
values in a language specific way, and that is to allow the --format
to generate a script that can be eval'ed. E.g.
$ git for-each-ref --shell \
--format='doit %(authorname) %(subject)' refs/heads/ab/\* |
head -n 3
doit 'Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason' 'branch: show "HEAD detached" first ...'
doit 'Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason' 'CoC: update to version 2.0 + local ...'
doit 'Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason' 'config.mak.uname: remove unused NEE...'
so that you can prepare
doit () {
person=$1 subject=$2
... do things on the branch data ...
}
beforehand and then eval the output from the script you wrote with
"git for-each-ref".
