From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] tag: make list exclude ! Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:31:53 -0800 Message-ID: <7v4nuxmdba.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20120210185516.GA4903@tgrennan-laptop> <1328926618-17167-1-git-send-email-tmgrennan@gmail.com> <7vaa4qnk4u.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vy5s9n70x.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Tom Grennan , pclouds@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org, krh@redhat.com, jasampler@gmail.com To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Feb 11 19:32:05 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RwHju-0008RQ-6P for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:32:02 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754371Ab2BKSb5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:31:57 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:60276 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754324Ab2BKSb4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:31:56 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCD2B70E1; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:31:55 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=273SmHSsxMB4V0OhDHbuGuOGjfc=; b=VmyA/C hwgymsN8LvbIUWZoGk56IFo7qeeBUUytBldPrmb0AcA7tCuMrP5f8HiPwmhcsIlG unm0XNQ2jEkSuAGe1em3keczJwu6oR3eMYDQg/BVeq5a+JaaQKZnsHgAzGbRqe+Z 4hsmZAVuqfRfyJE0s4Oas1bdEAZTdRz7lGGvw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=Fg3zVCIc40g7sBlEyysm2+xEHQ0pcz7U zMUMuMmjfKkG7uUEEjubTb/1EEDpvv0v50LloZPIOPsVHLKZc5OcsnjHV4Q4GM7R PrtK2xvo4E7bOQzg9K7i46wzezwfGfukGnU36BQ8npU2vKebINoFvWuo64JqzRUm 6CcJnzuRH2Y= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D42C070E0; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:31:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4856B70DF; Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:31:55 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Jakub Narebski's message of "Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:13:13 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: AC9DB698-54DE-11E1-884A-9DB42E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jakub Narebski writes: > Junio C Hamano writes: > >> In a future versions, we may want to have "branch/tag --list" also ask for >> FNM_PATHNAME (this *is* a backward incompatible change, so it needs to be >> performed across major version boundary, with backward compatibility >> configurations, deprecation warnings and whole nine yards). Under the new >> match function, today's "branch --list 'maint*'" needs to be spelled as >> "branch --list 'maint*/*'" or something. > > Or "branch --list 'maint**' That is one of the things covered by "or something", and I deliberately left it like so because all the good things that can happen "In future version" are irrelevant at the present _unless_ the required first step you omitted from your quote is not done properly, and I didn't want to invite people to derail the discussion into such a tangent that does not yet have any value. Please don't.