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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] refspec: add support for negative refspecs
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Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> writes:

> Refspecs today are commutative, meaning that order doesn't expressly
> matter. Rather than forcing an implied order, negative refspecs will
> always be applied last. That is, in order to match, a ref must match at
> least one positive refspec, and match none of the negative refspecs.
> This is similar to how negative pathspecs work.

Looked sensible.  Let's move this forward.