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[PATCH v4 2/3] Doc: cover multiple contains/no-contains filters

From
Aaron Lipman <alipman88@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 16, 2020, 02:08 UTC
Message-ID
<20200916020840.84892-3-alipman88@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20200916020840.84892-1-alipman88@gmail.com>

Update documentation for "git branch", "git for-each-ref" and "git tag" with notes explaining what happens when passed multiple --contains or --no-contains filters.

This behavior is useful to document prior to enabling multiple merged/no-merged filters, in order to demonstrate consistent behavior between merged/no-merged and contains/no-contains filters.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Lipman <alipman88@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/filters.txt          | 3 +++
 Documentation/git-branch.txt       | 2 ++
 Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt | 5 +++++
 Documentation/git-tag.txt          | 5 +++++
 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/filters.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/filters.txt b/Documentation/filters.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4ee17afc01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/filters.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+When combining multiple `--contains` and `--no-contains` filters, only
+references that contain at least one of the `--contains` commits and
+contain none of the `--no-contains` commits are shown.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 03c0824d52..aa5e4da142 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -370,6 +370,8 @@ serve four related but different purposes:
 - `--no-merged` is used to find branches which are candidates for merging
   into HEAD, since those branches are not fully contained by HEAD.
 
+include::filters.txt[]
+
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-check-ref-format[1],
diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
index 616ce46087..c207ed9551 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
@@ -408,6 +408,11 @@ Note also that multiple copies of an object may be present in the object
 database; in this case, it is undefined which copy's size or delta base
 will be reported.
 
+NOTES
+-----
+
+include::filters.txt[]
+
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-show-ref[1]
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
index f6d9791780..dadbd71d62 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
@@ -377,6 +377,11 @@ $ GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="2006-10-02 10:31" git tag -s v1.0.1
 
 include::date-formats.txt[]
 
+NOTES
+-----
+
+include::filters.txt[]
+
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-check-ref-format[1].
-- 
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  1. ref-filter: allow merged and no-merged filtersAaron Lipman, Sep 8, 2020
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2020
  3. Aaron LipmanSep 8, 2020
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 9, 2020
  5. 0/2 git branch: allow combining merged and no-merged filtersAaron Lipman, Sep 11, 2020
  6. 1/2 t3201: test multiple branch filter combinationsAaron Lipman, Sep 11, 2020
  7. 2/2 ref-filter: allow merged and no-merged filtersAaron Lipman, Sep 11, 2020
  8. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2020
  9. 0/3 git branch: allow combining merged and no-merged filtersAaron Lipman, Sep 13, 2020
  10. 1/3 t3201: test multiple branch filter combinationsAaron Lipman, Sep 13, 2020
  11. Eric SunshineSep 13, 2020
  12. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2020
  13. 2/3 Doc: cover multiple contains/no-contains filtersAaron Lipman, Sep 13, 2020
  14. Eric SunshineSep 13, 2020
  15. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2020
  16. 3/3 ref-filter: allow merged and no-merged filtersAaron Lipman, Sep 13, 2020
  17. Eric SunshineSep 13, 2020
  18. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2020
  19. Eric SunshineSep 13, 2020
  20. 0/3 git branch: allow combining merged and no-merged filtersAaron Lipman, Sep 16, 2020
  21. 1/3 t3201: test multiple branch filter combinationsAaron Lipman, Sep 16, 2020
  22. 2/3 Doc: cover multiple contains/no-contains filtersAaron Lipman, Sep 16, 2020
  23. Junio C HamanoSep 16, 2020
  24. 3/3 ref-filter: allow merged and no-merged filtersAaron Lipman, Sep 16, 2020
  25. Junio C HamanoSep 16, 2020
  26. Eric SunshineSep 16, 2020
  27. 0/2 ref-filter: merged & no-merged touch-upsAaron Lipman, Sep 18, 2020
  28. 1/2 ref-filter: refactor do_merge_filter()Aaron Lipman, Sep 18, 2020
  29. Eric SunshineSep 18, 2020
  30. Eric SunshineSep 18, 2020
  31. Junio C HamanoSep 18, 2020
  32. 2/2 Doc: prefer more specific file nameAaron Lipman, Sep 18, 2020
  33. Eric SunshineSep 18, 2020
  34. 0/2 ref-filter: merged & no-merged touch-upsAaron Lipman, Sep 18, 2020
  35. 1/2 ref-filter: make internal reachable-filter API more preciseAaron Lipman, Sep 18, 2020
  36. 2/2 Doc: prefer more specific file nameAaron Lipman, Sep 18, 2020

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