Hi Eric, On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 03:36:45PM -0600, Eric Freese wrote: > Hi, > > I was recently using git-for-each-ref in a script to get a list of > remote refs that pointed at a particular commit so that they could > automatically be updated and pushed back to that remote. This fails when > it comes across refs/remotes/origin/HEAD, which is a symbolic link. > > I was able to solve the problem with: > > ``` > git for-each-ref ... --format="%(refname) %(symref)" | grep " $" > ``` > > But that feels a little clumsy to me. I would have expected there to be > a flag like `--no-symbolic` that would exclude symbolic refs from the > output. So I went ahead and added it :)
Indeed, that does seem a little clumsy to me, too. It's kind of a great hack, but I could foresee functionality like '--no-symbolic' to be useful to avoid hackery like this. > I could forsee this option also being added to git-branch and git-tag, > but decided to keep it to git-for-each-ref to test the waters before > investing any further time into it. Yep. It's good that your patches are mainly in the 'ref-filter.[ch]' code, so it would be easy to wire up new flags in both the branch+tag builtins, too, since they use the same ref-filter API. > Cheers > > Eric Freese (1): > for-each-ref: add '--no-symbolic' option > > Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt | 3 +++ > builtin/for-each-ref.c | 4 +++- > ref-filter.c | 4 ++++ > ref-filter.h | 3 ++- > t/t6302-for-each-ref-filter.sh | 6 ++++++ > 5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.23.0 Thanks, Taylor
