Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 03:30:35PM +0000, Phillip Wood wrote: > >> Hi John >> >> On 04/03/2024 22:51, John Cai via GitGitGadget wrote: >> > From: John Cai <johncai86@xxxxxxxxx> >> > >> > For reftable development, it would be handy to have a tool to provide >> > the direct value of any ref whether it be a symbolic ref or not. >> > Currently there is git-symbolic-ref, which only works for symbolic refs, >> > and git-rev-parse, which will resolve the ref. Let's add a --unresolved >> > option that will only take one ref and return whatever it points to >> > without dereferencing it. >> >> "--unresolved" makes me think of merge conflicts. I wonder if >> "--no-dereference" would be clearer. > > We have "--no-deref" in "git update-ref" already. It is probably better > to stay consistent. That's an excellent precedent. Thanks.
