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Re: Listing commits that are _exclusively_ available on a given branch

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 23, 2012, 17:38 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> No, I think that is the only way to do it. The algorithm run by rev-list
> in that case should be optimal, so there is nothing to improve there.
> Syntactically, it's a little bit of a pain because there is no way to
> tell rev-list "--all, except for this one branch" short of using grep.
> We could add a new syntax for that, but I'm not sure what it would look
> like (or if it would be any easier on the eyes than what you have).

We discussed --exclude-refs="refs/tags/expermental-*" that would affect how --all, --heads, and friends are processed several weeks ago, didn't we?

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