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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: GIT v1.5.1-rc1
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:42:06 -0400
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Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 2007 March 20 02:55, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > think they are stuck on the fact that you cannot use:
> >
> > 	git log $new --not --all
> 
> > That almost needs a --all-except="refs/heads/a refs/heads/b" option
> > to rev-list.  Grrrr.
> 
> I'm afraid so.  Would a --ignore list be more appropriate?  That way you could 
> list any refs you wanted (i.e. not just --all) and then have that list 
> finally filtered by --ignore.

Last night on #git Dscho suggested something like:

  git log $new --not '!a' '!b' --all

as a way to say ignore ref a and ref b when otherwise parsing the
command line arguments.  Ugly, very ugly.  But is more or less the
same idea you are talking about with the --ignore flag.

-- 
Shawn.