On Oct 27, 2007, at 11:53 PM, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
"git rev-parse --symbolic" used to return the ref name as it was
specified on the command line. This is changed to returning the
full matched ref name, i.e. "git rev-parse --symbolic master"
now typically returns "refs/heads/master".
Note, this changes output of an established command. It might
break existing setups. I checked that it does not break scripts
in git.git.
I think this makes the --create option to push unnecessary, as
interactive
users could use a suggested explicit value (or whatever they actually
meant), while scripts could replace $name with $(git rev-parse --
symbolic
$name) as easily as they could add --create, and by more explicit
as to
what they're doing.
I'll remove 4/8 (git rev-parse --symbolic) from the patch
series. It is not directly related to the push behaviour
and Junio pointed out that the old behavior of git rev-parse
must be maintained as is. I'm not particularly interested in
modifying git rev-parse. If someone else is, feel free to take
over my patch.
I'll keep the '--create' flag. Its intention is obvious and easy
to explain to users. Much easier than
"git rev-parse --dwim_ref ..." or something similar.
Steffen
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