Re: [RFC/PATCH] tag: make list exclude !<pattern>

Michael Haggerty [off-list ref] writes:

The proposal, amended to use "^" instead of "!", is that

    git for-each-ref A B ^C

should mean "the reference names A and B but not C".  Therefore, the command

    git rev-list $(git for-each-ref A B ^C)

, which consistency suggests should do the same thing as the first
command,...

That is an utter rubbish that does not even deserve a response.

Your argument is like saying

     git for-each-ref A

and

     git for-each-ref $(git rev-parse A)

should somehow magically produce the same (or related) result. The
for-each-ref command operates on refname patterns, while rev-list and
rev-parse takes object names.