From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 16:19:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] refspec: add support for negative refspecs
Message-ID: <xmqqr1s09djt.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200821023335.GA3124022@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Yes, I'd agree we should be applying the negative refspecs first, and
> then de-duping / looking for collisions. Which I think is what the patch
> is doing currently.

Good to see that we thought this through.  The reasoning deserves to
be recorded somewhere (perhaps a comment just before making the call
to apply the negative refspec).

Thanks.