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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Matthew DeVore <matvore@google.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
	git@jeffhostetler.com, jeffhost@microsoft.com,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@gmail.com>,
	Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>,
	pclouds@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] Documentation/git-rev-list: s/<commit>/<object>/
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 11:21:09 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqo9bmyb56.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMfpvh+CDc_jToDmZaAypqwXvrhJMO-_4sUWRcjXwwz6OHhAHA@mail.gmail.com> (Matthew DeVore's message of "Fri, 19 Oct 2018 17:03:56 -0700")

Matthew DeVore <matvore@google.com> writes:

>> It is more like "this is a set operation across commits.  We also
>> show objects that are reachable from the commits in the resulting
>> set and are not reachable from the commits in the set that were
>> excluded when --objects option is given".
>>
> That would be correct though it wouldn't tell that you can use
> "--objects ^foo-tree bar-tree."

Yeah, but quite honestly, I consider that it is working by accident,
not by design, in the current code (iow, you are looking at a
behaviour of whatever the code happens to do).  "rev-list" is pretty
much set operation across commits, and anything that deals with a
non commit-ish given from the command line is an afterthought at
best, and happenstance in reality.

I do not mean to say that the code must stay that way, though.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-22  2:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-11 23:08 [RFC PATCH 0/3] support for filtering trees and blobs based on depth Matthew DeVore
2018-10-11 23:09 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] list-objects: support for skipping tree traversal Matthew DeVore
2018-10-14 23:15   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-18  0:25     ` Matthew DeVore
2018-10-11 23:09 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] Documentation/git-rev-list: s/<commit>/<object>/ Matthew DeVore
2018-10-14 23:25   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-20  0:03     ` Matthew DeVore
2018-10-22  2:21       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-12-07 22:55         ` Matthew DeVore
2018-12-08  6:24           ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-11 23:09 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] list-objects-filter: teach tree:# how to handle >0 Matthew DeVore
2018-10-15  2:31   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-08  0:47     ` Matthew DeVore
2018-12-10 23:15     ` Matthew DeVore

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