From: A Large Angry SCM Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:49:03 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] extending git-ls-files --exclude. Message-ID: <42EA33CF.3080302@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050729072157.GD24895@pasky.ji.cz> Petr Baudis wrote: > Dear diary, on Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 09:25:45PM CEST, I got a letter > where Matthias Urlichs told me that... >>Hi, A Large Angry SCM wrote: >> >>>So you're arguing for "last match wins" versus "first match wins". I, >>>personally, find the former more natural and easier to debug by hand. >>You know, up until five minutes ago, I thought so too. > > So is the Large Angry SCM agreeing with me or not? I wrote long reply to > his mail, then reread what he wrote again, and decided that he is > _agreeing_ with me and you that "last match wins" is better. :-) > *Oops!* Yes, it looks that way doesn't it. But I had accidentally [*1*] typed "former" where I wanted "later". Either way works as long as it's well documented/understood. [*1*] Either too much or too little caffeine at the time I suspect.