From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jed Brown <jed@59A2.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git branch: multiple --merged and --no-merged options?
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 04:13:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130323081333.GC29768@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738vmu92l.fsf@59A2.org>
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 09:46:42PM -0500, Jed Brown wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 02:38:12PM -0500, Jed Brown wrote:
> >> $ git branch --no-merged master --merged next
> >
> > Yeah, sadly that does not work, as we use the same slot for the flag and
> > store only one of the two (and we also allow only one "--merged" head,
> > even though you could in theory want to know "merged to X, or merged to
> > Y").
>
> Hmm, I would have said conjunction (AND) was more natural than
> disjunction (OR). If we add support for multiple '--merged' and
> '--no-merged', do we expect to eventually have a full query grammar?
Yeah, you might want either. I was just thinking along the lines of the
existing --contains and --points-at (which only tag, not branch, knows
about), both of which OR multiple items. I think you'd want to flesh out
some use cases before deciding.
-Peff
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2013-03-15 19:38 Jed Brown
2013-03-22 17:50 ` Jeff King
2013-03-23 2:46 ` Jed Brown
2013-03-23 8:13 ` Jeff King [this message]
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