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

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

In a future versions, we may want to have "branch/tag --list" also ask for
FNM_PATHNAME (this *is* a backward incompatible change, so it needs to be
performed across major version boundary, with backward compatibility
configurations, deprecation warnings and whole nine yards). Under the new
match function, today's "branch --list 'maint*'" needs to be spelled as
"branch --list 'maint*/*'" or something.

One of the reasons I proposed pathspec is to avoid another set of
matching syntax in addition to gitattr, gitignore and pathspec,
Pathspec magic makes it extensible, FNM_PATHNAME be set that way.

Or "branch --list 'maint**'

But this comes up a few times already on gitignore discussions. We
have fnmatch.c in compat for Windows. Someone just needs to step up
and implement "**". It would also a nice thing to add to pathspec
syntax, if we can forget the backward compatibility nightmare.
-- 
Duy