Re: [PATCH WIP 0/3] git log --exclude

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> This series adds --exclude that uses .gitignore mechanism remove
> commits whose changes that are _entirely_ excluded.

I'd see this --exclude as the opposite of specifying files, i.e. in a repository containing directories A, B and C,

git log --exclude=B

would be the same as

git log A C

If I understand correctly, it's not the case with your implementation because

> Because it uses .gitignore mechanism, beware that these patterns do
> not behave exactly like pathspecs

and because "git log --stat A C" (or --patch) will show the diff only for A and C for commits touching all directories.

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Matthieu Moy
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