Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] Towards a more awesome git branch

Ramkumar Ramachandra [off-list ref] writes:

[-CC: Duy, since he has left the community]

Junio: since Duy is no longer around to guide us, I will rely on your guidance.

Duy Nguyen wrote:

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I'm starting to think this is a half-baked solution. It hides
problems, for example commit placeholders should produce empty string,
not the literal placeholders.

Why should they produce empty strings?  Aren't they equivalent to
invalid placeholders?

I haven't even skimmed the series, so responding to a comment given
as a response to 00/15 is a bit difficult, but I _think_ this refers
to this issue: what should "%(cD)" produce when given to for-each-ref
and you have a tag that points at non committish?

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/226343/focus=226460

I may be guessing incorrectly what Duy's comment is about, though.

I'll hopefully have something more concrete and useful after I have
a chance to read the series, but not now.