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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] fast-export: add new --refspec option
Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 17:21:42 -0700
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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Simple.  You treat everything as refspecs and form revision ranges
>> out of them.  Note that that is exactly the reason why "git push"
>> can take "master" as a short-hand for "master:master" [*1*].
> ...
>> So I would imagine you would be spelling that as:
>>
>>     git fast-export master:new-master --not next refs/tags/*
>>
>> or something, no?
>
> rev-list doesn't accept 'refs/tags/*'.

I think you misunderstood.  That is meant to illustrate what your
end users feed "fast-export". "fast-export" in turn expands that
into a revision range, which needs to happen anyway when it strips
:new-master from the positive end of the range to make the range
into

	master ^next ^refs/tags/v1.0 ^refs/tags/v1.1 ...