Michael Haggerty <mhag...@alum.mit.edu> writes: > Add cross-references between the manpages for git-for-each-ref(1) and > git-show-ref(1). > > Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhag...@alum.mit.edu> > --- > There is a lot of overlap between the functionality of these two > commands.
Two differences I most often use (i.e. take advantage of) are: - The former is about showing 0 or more matching refs, and not matching anything is a perfectly normal condition, i.e. $ git for-each-ref refs/heads/no-such exits with status 0. The latter can be used with --verify to check if one ref exists, on the other hand. - The former takes the match-from-left-to-right pattern (similar to the usual pathspec match), while the latter matches from the tail. $ git for-each-ref refs/heads/* ;# only one-level names $ git for-each-ref refs/heads/** ;# catches both master and mh/path-max $ git show-ref master ;# refs/heads/master, refs/remotes/origin/master,... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
