Re: [PATCH 2/3] fast-export: add new --refspec option
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Of course, but how do you implement that? That's mixing refspecs and
>> revlist arguments, which AFAIK don't mix:
>
> Simple. You treat everything as refspecs and form revision ranges
> out of them. Note that that is exactly the reason why "git push"
> can take "master" as a short-hand for "master:master" [*1*].
And how do you implement that?
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>> % git fast-export ^next:new-next master:new-master --not
>> refs/tags/*:refs/tags/backup/*
>
> I thought you stopped mentioning the bottom of the range
> (e.g. ^next) in the output from export stream at around 49266e8a11cf
> (fast-export: don't handle uninteresting refs, 2012-11-28).
That doesn't prevent the rev-list parsing from working.
> What does ^next:new-next (or mapping after "--not" in general) even
> mean? They would not make sense, would they?
They don't, which is precisely my point.
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> So I would imagine you would be spelling that as:
>
> git fast-export master:new-master --not next refs/tags/*
>
> or something, no?
rev-list doesn't accept 'refs/tags/*'.
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Felipe Contreras
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>