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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/9] ref-filter: add %(refname:lalignX) option
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 21:44:32 -0700
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Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Why would we even want this kind of thing in the first place?  Is
>> this to make it possible to re-implement some option that exists
>> already in 'git branch' or 'git tag' as a thin wrapper on top of
>> this underlying feature?
>> ...
>
> Well this is to support the printing of tag in `git tag -l`,...

OK, then.
Thanks.