From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 21:21:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] refspec: add support for negative refspecs
Message-ID: <xmqq1riki8ji.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200925210740.1939450-2-jacob.e.keller@intel.com>

Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> writes:

> Refspecs today are commutative, meaning that order doesn't expressly
> matter. Rather than forcing an implied order, negative refspecs will
> always be applied last. That is, in order to match, a ref must match at
> least one positive refspec, and match none of the negative refspecs.
> This is similar to how negative pathspecs work.

Looked sensible.  Let's move this forward.