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From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/15] for-each-ref: introduce format specifier %>(*) and %<(*)
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 17:15:30 +0700
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On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Duy Nguyen wrote:
>> I mentioned it before and I do it again. This is not optimal.
>
> Yeah, I'll attempt to fix this, but it's not urgent.

Agreed it's not urgent.

>> But I guess it's ok in this
>> shape unless you run this over hundreds of refs.
>
> Oh, you can run over a hundred refs just fine, for scripting purposes;
> but why would you want to run over a hundred refs with a pretty that
> includes %>(*) or %<(*)?

Good point. "git for-each-ref|wc -l" on my git repo says I have 673
refs. A naive use for-each-ref --pretty without any ref patterns could
happen. But I guess people will quickly learn to limit the ref
selection soon after doing that :-)
--
Duy