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Re: avoiding fetching specific refs from a remote

From
EWEric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date
Aug 7, 2020, 08:04 UTC
Message-ID
<20200807080436.GA21342@dcvr>
In-Reply-To
<BE29FA64-5281-4D9E-B509-CA2C2B7BB87D@gmail.com>
Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Le 5 août 2020 à 02:37, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> a écrit :
> > This is definitely a reasonable thing to want, and it has come up off
> > and on over the years. One search term for the list archive is "negative
> > refspecs", though it turns up a lot of useless hits when the two words
> > are not directly adjacent.
> 
> I tried searching "negative refspecs" (*with* the double quotes) and I get 20 results so it 
> seems to work. Although interestingly it doesn't find this message you wrote I'm responding to 
> because "negative" and "refspec" are on separate lines... I'm CC-ing Eric in case he knows more
> about this limitation.

Initially I thought it was phrase searching being disabled on lore (Xapian 1.2, "chert" backend). However, I just tried on lore and it shows Jeff's message from 2020-08-05 6:37 UTC:

 https://lore.kernel.org/git/?q=%22negative+refspecs%22

So maybe it was a delay due to Xapian's MVCC mechanism; but that shouldn't be HOURS off (maybe minutes at most), assuming you tried to search shortly before you sent the message I'm replying to at 22:12 UTC...

My v1 instance at public-inbox.org (which uses Xapian 1.4 and the "glass" backend) shows it, too:

 https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=%22negative+refspecs%22

You could also try NEAR and ADJ (I don't have much experience with those): https://xapian.org/docs/queryparser.html

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  2. Jeff KingAug 5, 2020
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2020
  4. Jacob KellerAug 5, 2020
  5. Jeff KingAug 5, 2020
  6. Jacob KellerAug 5, 2020
  7. Philippe BlainAug 5, 2020
  8. Eric WongAug 7, 2020
  9. Jacob KellerAug 12, 2020
  10. Jeff KingAug 13, 2020

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