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Re: [PATCH 5/5] describe: teach describe negative pattern matches

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 12, 2017, 22:02 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> Hi Jake,
>
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2017, Jacob Keller wrote:
>
>> From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
>> 
>> Teach git-describe the `--discard` option which will allow specifying
>> a glob pattern of tags to ignore.
>
> IMHO "discard" is the wrong word, it almost sounds as if the matching tags
> would be *deleted*.
>
> Maybe `--exclude` or `--unmatch` instead?
Yeah, as j6t mentions, I think --exclude would be a good choice.
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Message 4 of 25 in “extend git-describe pattern matching”
  1. 0/5 extend git-describe pattern matchingJacob Keller, Jan 12, 2017
  2. 5/5 describe: teach describe negative pattern matchesJacob Keller, Jan 12, 2017
  3. Johannes SchindelinJan 12, 2017
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 12, 2017
  5. Johannes SixtJan 12, 2017
  6. Jacob KellerJan 13, 2017
  7. Johannes SixtJan 13, 2017
  8. Jacob KellerJan 13, 2017
  9. Johannes SixtJan 13, 2017
  10. Jacob KellerJan 17, 2017
  11. Johannes SchindelinJan 18, 2017
  12. Jacob KellerJan 18, 2017
  13. 4/5 describe: teach --match to accept multiple patternsJacob Keller, Jan 12, 2017
  14. 2/5 name-rev: extend --refs to accept multiple patternsJacob Keller, Jan 12, 2017
  15. Johannes SchindelinJan 12, 2017
  16. Jacob KellerJan 13, 2017
  17. 3/5 name-rev: add support to discard refs by pattern matchJacob Keller, Jan 12, 2017
  18. Johannes SchindelinJan 12, 2017
  19. Jacob KellerJan 13, 2017
  20. 1/5 doc: add documentation for OPT_STRING_LISTJacob Keller, Jan 12, 2017
  21. Johannes SchindelinJan 12, 2017
  22. Jacob KellerJan 13, 2017
  23. Johannes SchindelinJan 12, 2017
  24. Junio C HamanoJan 13, 2017
  25. Jacob KellerJan 13, 2017

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