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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail•com>,
	Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn•com>,
	Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1•demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 06/10] fast-export: add new --refspec option
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 14:41:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmwlh6tlh.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr4at6u24.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed, 06 Nov 2013 14:31:47 -0800")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:

> Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:
>
>> I think that is much nicer for the simple cases, but how do we handle
>> more complex rev expressions? One can say:
>>
>>   git fast-export master ^origin
>>
>> or even:
>>
>>   git fast-export origin..master
>>
>> The "^origin" is not a refspec, and finding the refspec in the
>> dot-expression would involve parsing it into two components. I think you
>> can come up with a workable system by parsing the arguments as revision
>> specifiers and then applying some rules. E.g., a positive ref "foo" is a
>> refspec "foo:foo", but negative "^bar" does not impact refspecs at all,
>> and the same rules are applied for "bar..foo". There is a syntactic
>> conflict where "foo:bar" would be interpreted as a tree:path by the
>> revision code, though, whereas in this context it means a refspec.
>>
>> So I think it is possible to go that route (and perhaps preferable,
>> even, because it keeps the simple and common cases easy for the user),
>> but the implementation is not as simple as just treating the arguments
>> as refspecs.
>
> I forgot about the ranges, but thinking about it further, I think ...

And I am an idiot; you've spelled out everything I wanted to say, so
I should have just dropped this ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-06 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-31  9:36 [PATCH v5 10/10] transport-helper: add support to delete branches Felipe Contreras
2013-10-31  9:36 ` [PATCH v5 00/10] transport-helper: updates Felipe Contreras
2013-10-31 17:59   ` Max Horn
2013-10-31 18:10     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-31 18:30       ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-31 18:34       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-31 18:41       ` Max Horn
2013-11-11  5:09   ` [PATCH v5 11/10] test-hg.sh: tests are now expected to pass Richard Hansen
2013-11-11  5:10   ` [PATCH v5 12/10] remote-bzr: support the new 'force' option Richard Hansen
2013-11-11 11:51     ` Felipe Contreras
2013-11-11 18:12       ` Richard Hansen
2013-11-11 18:15         ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-31  9:36 ` [PATCH v5 01/10] transport-helper: fix extra lines Felipe Contreras
2013-10-31 18:16   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-31  9:36 ` [PATCH v5 08/10] fast-import: add support to delete refs Felipe Contreras
2013-10-31 18:41   ` Max Horn
2013-10-31  9:36 ` [PATCH v5 05/10] fast-export: improve argument parsing Felipe Contreras
2013-10-31  9:36 ` [PATCH v5 06/10] fast-export: add new --refspec option Felipe Contreras
2013-10-31 18:26   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-31 18:41     ` Felipe Contreras
2013-11-06 21:00       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-11-06 22:14         ` Jeff King
2013-11-06 22:31           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-11-06 22:41             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-11-08 23:44           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-11-09  0:06             ` Jeff King
2013-11-07  1:00         ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-31  9:36 ` [PATCH v5 03/10] transport-helper: add 'force' to 'export' helpers Felipe Contreras
2013-10-31 18:21   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-31 18:55     ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-31 19:07       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-11-01 14:49         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-11-01 15:37           ` Felipe Contreras
2013-11-01 16:35             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-11-01 17:28               ` Eric Sunshine
2013-11-11  5:01   ` [PATCH] fixup! " Richard Hansen
2013-10-31  9:36 ` [PATCH v5 09/10] fast-export: add support to delete refs Felipe Contreras
2013-10-31 19:29   ` Max Horn
2013-10-31 19:41     ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-31 19:47       ` Max Horn
2013-10-31 19:53         ` Felipe Contreras
2013-10-31 22:38           ` Max Horn
2013-10-31  9:36 ` [PATCH v5 07/10] transport-helper: add support for old:new refspec Felipe Contreras
2013-10-31  9:36 ` [PATCH v5 04/10] transport-helper: check for 'forced update' message Felipe Contreras
2013-10-31  9:36 ` [PATCH v5 02/10] transport-helper: don't update refs in dry-run Felipe Contreras

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