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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-01-05 12:09:55 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-01-06 18:41:43 -0800
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git-rev-parse --symbolic-full-name
The plumbing level can understand that the user meant "refs/heads/master" when the user says "master" or "heads/master", but there is no easy way for the scripts to figure it out without duplicating the dwim_ref() logic. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -70,6 +70,13 @@ OPTIONS
possible '{caret}' prefix); this option makes them output in a
form as close to the original input as possible.
+--symbolic-full-name::
+ This is similar to \--symbolic, but it omits input that
+ are not refs (i.e. branch or tag names; or more
+ explicitly disambiguating "heads/master" form, when you
+ want to name the "master" branch when there is an
+ unfortunately named tag "master"), and show them as full
+ refnames (e.g. "refs/heads/master").
--all::
Show all refs found in `$GIT_DIR/refs`.