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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Mickey Killianey <mickey@killianey.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Negation in refspecs
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 14:11:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140305191128.GC31252@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACAUoX6Y5eC_9PxihkecfgWeCetj4K30sVm7wHosTqqh=_0unA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 10:06:26AM -0800, Mickey Killianey wrote:

> Is there any syntax to support partial negations of refspecs, such as:
> 
> +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
> !refs/heads/dont-pull:
> !:refs/remotes/origin/dont-push
> 
> If not now, is negation something that might be possible/reasonable in
> a future version of Git, or is it difficult/unlikely to change?

No, it doesn't exist now. It's something that people have asked for
occasionally, but I don't think anybody is actively working on it.

I posted a rough patch here:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/240997/focus=241057

about a month ago, but I do not have any immediate plans to take it
further (that email details some of the issues). If you're interested in
working on it, I think people are receptive to the idea; it just needs a
clean implementation.

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2014-03-05 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-05 18:06 Negation in refspecs Mickey Killianey
2014-03-05 19:11 ` Jeff King [this message]

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