From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 22:08:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] describe: add support for multiple match patterns
Message-ID: <xmqqa8c7wfxu.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20161207023259.29355-2-jacob.e.keller@intel.com>

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

> ... Suppose that you version all
> your official releases such as "v1.2", "v1.3", "v1.4", "v2.1" and so on.
> Now, you also have other tags which represent -rc releases and other
> such tags. If you want to find the first major release that contains
> a given commit you might try
>
> git describe --contains --match="v?.?" <commit>
>
> This will work as long as you have only single digits. But if you start
> adding multiple digits, the pattern becomes not enough to match all the
> tags you wanted while excluding the ones you didn't.

Isn't what you really want for the use case a negative pattern,
i.e. "I want ones that match v* but not the ones that match *-rc*",
though?