Subject: Re: [PATCH] revision: add --except option

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:08:44 +0200

Am 8/30/2013 9:32, schrieb Felipe Contreras:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:26 AM, Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> On Aug 30, 2013 12:19 AM, "Felipe Contreras" <[email-masked]>
>> Would the same argument apply to
>>
>>   next ^maint --except maint
>>
>> where next gets in the queue, maint in tainted, and skipped?
> 
> maint is not skipped, as it's not the same as ^maint, basically it's
> the same as:
> 
> next ^maint
> 
> I think that's good, as there's absolutely no reason why anybody would
> want '^maint --except maint' to cancel each other out.

But isn't this basically the same as '--not maint --except maint'? This by
itself looks strange. But when disguised in the form '--not --branches
--except maint', it would make sense to mean '--not master next', aka
'^master ^next'.

-- Hannes