Re: [PATCH 5/5] describe: teach describe negative pattern matches

> Am 13.01.2017 um 01:59 schrieb Jacob Keller:
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>> I think that --exclude makes sense, but the current implementation
>> does not differentiate ordering, since both are merely accumulated
>> into string_lists and then matched together. I'm not sure how order
>> would impact things here? In the current implementation, if something
>> is excluded and matched, it will be excluded. That is, exclusion
>> patterns take precedence over match patterns. I think this makes the
>> most sense semantically.
>
>
> When you write
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>   git log --exclude=wip/* --branches --remotes
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> --exclude applies only to --branches, not to --remotes.
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>  When you write
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>   git log --branches --exclude=origin/* --remotes
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> --exclude=origin/* applies only to --remotes, but not to --branches.
>
> -- Hannes
>