Re: [RFC/PATCH] tag: make list exclude !<pattern>
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Feb 11, 2012, 18:31 UTC
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes: > >> In a future versions, we may want to have "branch/tag --list" also ask for >> FNM_PATHNAME (this *is* a backward incompatible change, so it needs to be >> performed across major version boundary, with backward compatibility >> configurations, deprecation warnings and whole nine yards). Under the new >> match function, today's "branch --list 'maint*'" needs to be spelled as >> "branch --list 'maint*/*'" or something. > > Or "branch --list 'maint**'
That is one of the things covered by "or something", and I deliberately left it like so because all the good things that can happen "In future version" are irrelevant at the present _unless_ the required first step you omitted from your quote is not done properly, and I didn't want to invite people to derail the discussion into such a tangent that does not yet have any value.
Please don't.