Re: [RFC v2 1/1] refspec: add support for negative refspecs

[Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 5:02 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> writes:
>
> > @@ -1441,6 +1559,8 @@ int match_push_refs(struct ref *src, struct ref **dst,
> >               string_list_clear(&src_ref_index, 0);
> >       }
> >
> > +     *dst = apply_negative_refspecs(*dst, rs);
> > +
> >       if (errs)
> >               return -1;
> >       return 0;
>
> And after grabbing all the candidate refs to be updated via this
> push, we filter out the ones that match negative pattern.  Can it
> also produce an error, or it can never fail (to udpate errs)?
>

It can't fail. Either refs match a negative refspec and will get
excluded, or they do not match a negative refspec and will be kept. We
already validate the negative refspecs earlier.

Thanks,
Jake