Re: [PATCH v11 12/13] tag.c: implement '--format' option

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Karthik Nayak [off-list ref] writes:

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From: Karthik Nayak <redacted>

Implement the '--format' option provided by 'ref-filter'.
This lets the user list tags as per desired format similar
to the implementation in 'git for-each-ref'.

Add tests and documentation for the same.

Hmm, do we want "--format" added to "tag -l" and "branch -l" in the
first place?  Scriptors should be using "for-each-ref" plumbing in
the first place, and the point of unifying these three is to share
filtering features among them, which would make "for-each-ref" able
to express what the other two can do.  I'd hesitate to add too much
flexibility to "branch -l" and "tag -l" Porcelains to entice people
to script around them.

I'll leave that decision to you, but I see it as a good feature, when perhaps
I just want to list tags with authors. Agreed `for-each-ref` can handle this too
but I don't see why `tag -l` shouldn't.

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Regards,
Karthik Nayak