Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] name-rev: extend --refs to accept multiple patterns

> Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> writes:
>
>> From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
>>
>> Teach git name-rev to take multiple --refs stored as a string list of
>> patterns. The list of patterns will be matched inclusively, and each ref
>> only needs to match one pattern to be included. A ref will only be
>> excluded if it does not match any of the given patterns. Additionally,
>> if any of the patterns would allow abbreviation, then we will abbreviate
>> the ref, even if another pattern is more strict and would not have
>> allowed abbreviation on its own.
>>
>> Add tests and documentation for this change. The tests expected output
>> is dynamically generated, but this is in order to avoid hard-coding
>> a commit object id in the test results (as the expected output is to
>> simply leave the commit object unnamed).
>
> Makes sense.
>
> I do not see anything that requires "... generated, but" there,
> though, as if it is a bad thing to do to prepare expected output
> dynamically.  I'd just reword "generated.  This is..." to make it
> neutral.