From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Tom Grennan <tmgrennan@gmail.com>,
pclouds@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org, krh@redhat.com,
jasampler@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] tag: make list exclude !<pattern>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:29:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F389FB1.2070706@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vlio9n5ym.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On 02/11/2012 09:13 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
>> The proposal, amended to use "^" instead of "!", is that
>>
>> git for-each-ref A B ^C
>>
>> should mean "the reference names A and B but not C". Therefore, the command
>>
>> git rev-list $(git for-each-ref A B ^C)
>>
>> , which consistency suggests should do the same thing as the first
>> command,...
>
> That is an utter rubbish that does not even deserve a response.
>
> Your argument is like saying
>
> git for-each-ref A
>
> and
>
> git for-each-ref $(git rev-parse A)
>
> should somehow magically produce the same (or related) result. The
> for-each-ref command operates on refname patterns, while rev-list and
> rev-parse takes object names.
Of *course* they operate on different namespaces. But part of the way
that revisions are selected using rev-list is by *selecting or excluding
refnames* from which it should crawl. How long do you think it will be
before somebody asks for rev-list to be able to crawl from a set of
branches *except for those that match some pattern*? (Hint: I more or
less asked for this feature in the "rubbish" email that you quoted.) At
that point we will have to say one of the following:
"Your suggestion is utter rubbish; just type 'git rev-list $(git
for-each-ref A B ^C)'."
This is an acceptable (though somewhat verbose) answer for the Unix
command line; for msgit users it is useless, and it probably cannot be
used in non-command-line scenarios like the gitk "edit view" dialog.
"Sure, but we have to invent yet another syntax because the one used by
for-each-ref conflicts with the existing syntax of rev-list." This
would be the standard git project practice of letting the UI accrete
into an ever more incomprehensible mess.
That is why I suggest that we choose a new syntax *now* for for-each-ref
(and "branch --list", "tag --list", etc) so that the same syntax can be
used later in rev-list, rev-parse, etc.
Michael
--
Michael Haggerty
mhagger@alum.mit.edu
http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/
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Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-09 19:43 [RFC/PATCH] tag: make list exclude !<pattern> Tom Grennan
2012-02-09 19:43 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-10 0:00 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-10 6:34 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-02-10 18:55 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-11 2:16 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-11 3:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-11 7:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-11 10:13 ` Jakub Narebski
2012-02-11 14:06 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-02-11 18:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-11 19:47 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-11 7:50 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-02-11 8:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-13 5:29 ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
2012-02-13 6:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-13 9:37 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-02-13 10:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-13 14:34 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-02-13 20:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-11 19:08 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-22 1:28 ` [PATCHv3 0/5] " Tom Grennan
2012-02-22 1:28 ` [PATCHv3 1/5] refs: add match_pattern() Tom Grennan
2012-02-22 6:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-22 23:47 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-23 0:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-23 0:59 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-22 1:28 ` [PATCHv3 2/5] tag --points-at option wrapper Tom Grennan
2012-02-22 1:28 ` [PATCHv3 3/5] tag --exclude option Tom Grennan
2012-02-22 6:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-23 0:22 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-23 1:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-01 1:45 ` [PATCH 0/5] modernize test style Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 2:15 ` [PATCHv2 " Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 8:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-03 17:42 ` Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 2:15 ` [PATCHv2 1/5] t7004 (tag): modernize style Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 21:31 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-03-03 2:15 ` [PATCHv2 2/5] t5512 (ls-remote): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 8:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-03 17:33 ` Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 2:15 ` [PATCHv2 3/5] t3200 (branch): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 2:15 ` [PATCHv2 4/5] t0040 (parse-options): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 2:15 ` [PATCHv2 5/5] t6300 (for-each-ref): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 2:15 ` [PATCHv2-w 101/105] t7004 (tag): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 2:15 ` [PATCHv2-w 102/105] t5512 (ls-remote): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 2:15 ` [PATCHv2-w 103/105] t3200 (branch): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 2:15 ` [PATCHv2-w 104/105] t0040 (parse-options): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-03 2:15 ` [PATCHv2-w 105/105] t6300 (for-each-ref): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 1:45 ` [PATCH 1/5] " Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 6:53 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-03-01 15:58 ` Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 1:45 ` [PATCH 2/5] t5512 (ls-remote): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 8:36 ` Thomas Rast
2012-03-01 1:45 ` [PATCH 3/5] t3200 (branch): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 1:45 ` [PATCH 4/5] t0040 (parse-options): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 1:45 ` [PATCH 5/5] t7004 (tag): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 1:45 ` [PATCH-w 101/105] t6300 (for-each-ref): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 2:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-01 3:20 ` Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 3:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-01 5:10 ` Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 5:57 ` Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 8:42 ` Thomas Rast
2012-03-01 15:48 ` Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 1:45 ` [PATCH-w 102/105] t5512 (ls-remote): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 1:45 ` [PATCH-w 103/105] t3200 (branch): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 1:45 ` [PATCH-w 104/105] t0040 (parse-options): " Tom Grennan
2012-03-01 1:45 ` [PATCH-w 105/105] t7004 (tag): " Tom Grennan
2012-02-22 1:28 ` [PATCHv3 4/5] branch --exclude option Tom Grennan
2012-02-22 1:28 ` [PATCHv3 5/5] for-each-ref " Tom Grennan
2012-02-11 2:16 ` [PATCHv2 1/4] refs: add common refname_match_patterns() Tom Grennan
2012-02-11 7:12 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-02-11 19:17 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-13 5:00 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-02-13 17:27 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-11 8:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-11 19:37 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-11 23:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-13 16:29 ` Tom Grennan
2012-02-11 2:16 ` [PATCHv2 2/4] tag: use refs.c:refname_match_patterns() Tom Grennan
2012-02-11 2:16 ` [PATCHv2 3/4] branch: " Tom Grennan
2012-02-11 2:16 ` [PATCHv2 4/4] for-each-ref: " Tom Grennan
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