[PATCHv3 0/5] Re: tag: make list exclude !<pattern>

It has taken me a while to get back to this; the following series rebase and rework my proposed "!<pattern>" feature. The first patch extracts match_pattern() from builtin/tag.c and updates this to replace similar functions in builtin/{branch,for-each-ref,ls-remote}.c

The second patch uses the OPT_CALLBACK wrapper on the recently added "--points-at" option of git-tag. I should have implemented it this way to begin with but I missed Jeff King's suggestion within that thread.

The remaining patches add "--exclude <pattern>" options (vs. "!<pattern>") to: git-tag, git-branch, and git-for-each-ref.

For example,
  $ git tag -l --exclude "*-rc?" "v1.7.8*"
  $ git branch -r --exclude \*HEAD
  $ git for-each-ref --format="%(refname)" --exclude "*HEAD"
	refs/remotes/origin

Instead of,
  $ git tag -l "!*-rc?" "v1.7.8*"
  $ git branch -r "!*HEAD"
  $ git for-each-ref --format="%(refname)" "!*HEAD" refs/remotes/origin

Note that I haven't yet added an "--exclude" feature to git-ls-remote because I think that I should first update its option parsing.

Thanks,
Tom Grennan (5):
  refs: add match_pattern()
  tag --points-at option wrapper
  tag --exclude option
  branch --exclude option
  for-each-ref --exclude option

 Documentation/git-branch.txt       |    7 ++++-
 Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt |    7 ++++-
 Documentation/git-tag.txt          |    6 +++-
 builtin/branch.c                   |   30 ++++++++-----------
 builtin/for-each-ref.c             |   27 +++++------------
 builtin/ls-remote.c                |   12 ++------
 builtin/tag.c                      |   35 ++++++++++------------
 refs.c                             |   36 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 refs.h                             |   12 ++++++++
 t/t3200-branch.sh                  |   23 +++++++++++++++
 t/t6300-for-each-ref.sh            |   11 +++++++
 t/t7004-tag.sh                     |   56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 12 files changed, 195 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)