From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:13:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] tag: make list exclude !<pattern>
Message-ID: <7vlio9n5ym.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F361DD4.9020108@alum.mit.edu>

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> The proposal, amended to use "^" instead of "!", is that
>
>     git for-each-ref A B ^C
>
> should mean "the reference names A and B but not C".  Therefore, the command
>
>     git rev-list $(git for-each-ref A B ^C)
>
> , which consistency suggests should do the same thing as the first
> command,...

That is an utter rubbish that does not even deserve a response.

Your argument is like saying

     git for-each-ref A

and

     git for-each-ref $(git rev-parse A)

should somehow magically produce the same (or related) result. The
for-each-ref command operates on refname patterns, while rev-list and
rev-parse takes object names.