From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:58:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn: Allow certain refs to be ignored
Message-ID: <20111010225838.GB3828@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vvcs0s7xa.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Asking Eric to comment when he has time to do so.
> 
> I find these pattern matches that are not anchored on either side 
> somewhat disturbing (e.g. --ignore-refs=master would ignore master2)
> but ignore-paths codepath seems to follow the same pattern, so perhaps it
> is in line with what git-svn users want. I dunno.

As stated last year, I remember wanting globs instead of regexps, but
we already made the regexp mistake with ignore-paths, too :(

I don't think it's horrible with regexps, and if git-svn users find it
useful, it's fine by me.

> Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org> writes:
> > Re-sent by request of Piotr Krukowiecki.  This is against v1.7.4.1,
> > and I've been using it stably for a while.

Michael: can you please rebase against latest and resend?  Thanks.