Re: [PATCH v4 2/7] ref-filter: add function to print single ref_array_item

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 05:16:42AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 04:55:43AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

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diff --git a/ref-filter.h b/ref-filter.h
index 14d435e..3d23090 100644
--- a/ref-filter.h
+++ b/ref-filter.h

@@ -107,4 +107,7 @@ struct ref_sorting *ref_default_sorting(void);
 /*  Function to parse --merged and --no-merged options */
 int parse_opt_merge_filter(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset);
 
+void pretty_print_ref(const char *name, const unsigned char *sha1,
+		const char *format, unsigned kind);
+

What are the possible values for "kind"? I guess these should come from
FILTER_REFS_TAGS, BRANCHES, etc. It's probably worth documenting that.
Alternatively, is it possible to just determine this from the name? It
looks like filter_ref_kind() is how it happens for a normal ref-filter.

I guess that may complicate things for the caller you add in this
series, which may not have a fully-qualified refname (which is obviously
how filter_ref_kind() figures it out). I'd argue that is a bug, though,
as things like "%(refname)" are generally expected to print out the
fully refname ("git tag --format=%(refname)" does so, and you can use
"%(refname:short)" if you want the shorter part).

Hmm, I hadn't actually noticed that. Do you have any suggestions in how to
address this?

In general this feels like a consequence of disambiguating .git/tags/*
within builtin/tag.c rather than letting ref-filter figure it out.

Thanks,
-Santiago.