Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Jul 04 2025, Karthik Nayak wrote: > >> Consider the example >> >> $ git for-each-ref >> refs/heads/bar >> refs/heads/foo >> refs/heads/main >> >> $ git for-each-ref --seek=refs/heads/cat >> refs/heads/foo >> refs/heads/main >> >> You can see that the reference doesn't have to exist. > > That is even more confusing. What is the first matching ref if none of > them match? Doesn't that mean skipping _all_ refs? > Well the idea is it would seek to the offset where the reference would fit in. This is to ensure that seeks to references which were deleted concurrently doesn't leave the client hanging with no results while paginating over all references. > -- > Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 > "And now for something completely different."
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