From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:06:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] tag: make list exclude !<pattern>
Message-ID: <CACsJy8B3pHZLUuqnmZuqfAo-B=LAm5Q6M4waf4sK8387E9U+uA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3sjihu18t.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> In a future versions, we may want to have "branch/tag --list" also ask for
>> FNM_PATHNAME (this *is* a backward incompatible change, so it needs to be
>> performed across major version boundary, with backward compatibility
>> configurations, deprecation warnings and whole nine yards). Under the new
>> match function, today's "branch --list 'maint*'" needs to be spelled as
>> "branch --list 'maint*/*'" or something.

One of the reasons I proposed pathspec is to avoid another set of
matching syntax in addition to gitattr, gitignore and pathspec,
Pathspec magic makes it extensible, FNM_PATHNAME be set that way.

> Or "branch --list 'maint**'

But this comes up a few times already on gitignore discussions. We
have fnmatch.c in compat for Windows. Someone just needs to step up
and implement "**". It would also a nice thing to add to pathspec
syntax, if we can forget the backward compatibility nightmare.
-- 
Duy