Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2020-09-16

Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] Doc: cover multiple contains/no-contains filters

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2020-09-16 19:45:56

Aaron Lipman [off-list ref] writes:
Update documentation for "git branch", "git for-each-ref" and "git tag"
with notes explaining what happens when passed multiple --contains or
--no-contains filters.

This behavior is useful to document prior to enabling multiple
merged/no-merged filters, in order to demonstrate consistent behavior
between merged/no-merged and contains/no-contains filters.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Lipman <redacted>
---
 Documentation/filters.txt          | 3 +++
"git" has more than one concepts that relate to the word "filter",
like the one that are used to create lazy clone, the "filter-branch"
command, "smudge/clean" filter, "textconv" filter used by the diff
and grep machinery to name some.

Make sure you do not accidentally squat on a good-sounding but
an overly generic name.  ref-reachability-filters.txt perhaps?
quoted hunk
diff --git a/Documentation/filters.txt b/Documentation/filters.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4ee17afc01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/filters.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+When combining multiple `--contains` and `--no-contains` filters, only
+references that contain at least one of the `--contains` commits and
+contain none of the `--no-contains` commits are shown.
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