From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 22:02:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] describe: teach describe negative pattern matches
Message-ID: <xmqqlgughr7b.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1701121041450.3469@virtualbox>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> 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.