From: Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:33:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn: Allow certain refs to be ignored
Message-ID: <CAN4ruPgRed=dK8PuHCvKRBVvpSK5iDYmprZ1p_Yu8Kqyvu8sfg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vvcs0s7xa.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Asking Eric to comment when he has time to do so.
>
> I find these pattern matches that are not anchored on either side
> somewhat disturbing (e.g. --ignore-refs=master would ignore master2)
> but ignore-paths codepath seems to follow the same pattern, so perhaps it
> is in line with what git-svn users want. I dunno.

My own personal use of this takes a list of patterns, concatenates
them into one giant pattern, adds '^', '$', and writes it out to
.gitconfig.  So I don't really have a preference, other than to make
both options consistent.

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