Re: [PATCH/WIP 0/9] for-each-ref format improvements

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  [off-list ref] writes:

Originally I wanted to introduce --pretty with git-log's pretty syntax
to for-each-ref, deprecating --format.

If you are going to unify the two mechanisms, I think the "--format"
option of "for-each-ref" needs to become a superset of what the
"--pretty" option of "log/rev-list" can express and shared between
the two.  The former has to handle anything that can be at the tip
of a ref, including commits, so it needs to be able to do anything
the latter can.