From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:42:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] name-rev: introduce the --ref-filter=<regex> option
Message-ID: <7vlkiwvfy5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702171502040.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> Instead of (or, in addition to) --tags, to use only tags for naming,
>> you can now use --ref-filter=<regex> to specify which refs are
>> used for naming.
>> 
>> Example:
>> 
>> 	$ git name-rev --ref-filter='/v1' 33db5f4d
>> 	33db5f4d tags/v1.0rc1^0~1593
>
> Likes, dislikes?

"Describe these objects in terms of these refs -- do not use any
other random refs, even if they are closer" was sorely lacking
for it to be usable for me, so I like what it does.

When we talk about path and path-like things including refs
I think we consistently use fnmatch not regexp.  At least I
think we try to.