From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2023 20:56:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] revision: refactor ref_excludes to ref_visibility
Message-ID: <xmqqy1kcfsb6.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <pull.1515.git.git.1687376112.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"John Cai via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> The ref_excludes API is used to tell which refs should be excluded. However,
> there are times when we would want to add refs to explicitly include as
> well. 4fe42f326e (pack-refs: teach pack-refs --include option, 2023-05-12)
> taught pack-refs how to include certain refs, but did it in a more manual
> way by keeping the ref patterns in a separate string list. Instead, we can
> easily extend the ref_excludes API to include refs as well, since this use
> case fits into the API nicely.

Hmph, how would this interact with the other topic in flight that
touch the ref exclusion logic tb/refs-exclusion-and-packed-refs?

Thanks.