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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-07-19 14:07:31 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-07-19 14:07:31 -0400 |
| commit | 59a4b5c9c42349cb94a1319de787bef181f8b340 (patch) | |
| tree | bc90278b1215d4962fe08c2254016966ca99c587 | |
| parent | b642cb47275f5e98b82203e825d7dd57d571d65e (diff) | |
further thoughts
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/todo/operate_on_branch_contents.mdwn | 16 |
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diff --git a/doc/todo/operate_on_branch_contents.mdwn b/doc/todo/operate_on_branch_contents.mdwn index ea715a0e8..f3ad9426f 100644 --- a/doc/todo/operate_on_branch_contents.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/operate_on_branch_contents.mdwn @@ -7,4 +7,18 @@ For example, this would be useful in bare repos to fsck only the master branch, and not all versions of all keys. It might be worth allowing a full refspec, so that eg `refs/remotes/*/master` -or `refs/tags/*` can be operated on. +or `refs/tags/*` can be operated on. --[[Joey]] + +> This should be pretty easy to implement, using `git ls-tree` +> to enumerate the contents of the ref. +> +> The wrinkle is that for --all, the name of each key is shown as it's +> operated on. But in this case, we want to instead display something like +> "ref:filename". +> +> So, every command that supports --branch (which probably +> should be all the ones currently supporting --all) will need to be +> modified, to be provided some new data type that is not FilePath to a +> work tree file, but something to display while operating on an item. +> +> Not a hard change to make, but an extensive one. --[[Joey]] |