Re: [PATCH] check-ref-format: require a repository for --branch

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 03:44:08PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:

I threw this topic in stalled category, hoping that one or the other
opinion eventually turns out to be more prevalent, but it didn't
seem to have happened X-<.

I think it's sufficiently obscure that nobody really cares.

I admit that _I_ don't actually care myself. We should fix the BUG(),
obviously, but between the two I could live with it either way. Mostly I
didn't want to go to the work to write the patch for the direction that
I didn't think was right, and was hoping Jonathan would if he felt
strongly about it.

So I think the right endgame in the longer term is:

I won't quote the rest of your message because I agree with it
completely, in terms of the endgame we'd like to see.

I'll address a few specific comments on your followup patch.

-Peff