From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 21:31:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] describe: teach describe negative pattern matches
Message-ID: <97d4105c-0fa6-41c5-e456-30cebd93dc36@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xq1LMkRG_aSyamrsPUQE+rDv4A9Qd19tDMgx-_a5OHsqQ@mail.gmail.com>

Am 13.01.2017 um 07:57 schrieb Jacob Keller:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 10:43 PM, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> wrote:
>>  When you write
>>
>>   git log --branches --exclude=origin/* --remotes
>>
>> --exclude=origin/* applies only to --remotes, but not to --branches.
>
> Well for describe I don't think the order matters.

That is certainly true today. But I would value consistency more. We 
would lose it if some time in the future 'describe' accepts --branches 
and --remotes in addition to --tags and --all.

-- Hannes