From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:01:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] name-rev: introduce the --ref-filter=<regex> option
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702171901310.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vlkiwvfy5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> >> Instead of (or, in addition to) --tags, to use only tags for naming,
> >> you can now use --ref-filter=<regex> to specify which refs are
> >> used for naming.
> >> 
> >> Example:
> >> 
> >> 	$ git name-rev --ref-filter='/v1' 33db5f4d
> >> 	33db5f4d tags/v1.0rc1^0~1593
> >
> > Likes, dislikes?
> 
> "Describe these objects in terms of these refs -- do not use any
> other random refs, even if they are closer" was sorely lacking
> for it to be usable for me, so I like what it does.
> 
> When we talk about path and path-like things including refs
> I think we consistently use fnmatch not regexp.  At least I
> think we try to.

Okay. Will rework.

Ciao,
Dscho