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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] describe: teach describe negative pattern matches
To:     Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
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From:   Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
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Am 13.01.2017 um 07:57 schrieb Jacob Keller:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 10:43 PM, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> wrote:
>>  When you write
>>
>>   git log --branches --exclude=origin/* --remotes
>>
>> --exclude=origin/* applies only to --remotes, but not to --branches.
>
> Well for describe I don't think the order matters.

That is certainly true today. But I would value consistency more. We 
would lose it if some time in the future 'describe' accepts --branches 
and --remotes in addition to --tags and --all.

-- Hannes