So, if I may ask, is the proposed patch as written (branch -f A B C X) acceptable and you just need me to rewrite the commit message or are you not interested in it at all? Il giorno mer 11 giu 2025 alle ore 17:26 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto: > > Andrea Stacchiotti <andreastacchiotti@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Il giorno mer 11 giu 2025 alle ore 02:22 Junio C Hamano > > <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto: > >> > >> Andrea Stacchiotti <andreastacchiotti@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> > >> > This patch aims to make repointing multiple branches to the same commit-ish > >> > easier, currently it needs a shell loop. > >> > >> Or "update-ref --stdin"? > > > > I learned something new, but I'd still like to keep advocating for a syntax > > like `branch --some-flag A B C X` instead of feeding by hand > > update-ref commands. > > I am personally not interested in such a mode, I do not know why you > think "--some-flag" is needed when the command can figure out from > the number of things on the command line being more than 2 just > fine. > > But my comment was targetted against "it needs a shell loop" in the > justification in the proposed log message, which is not quite > correct. >
