Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> 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 ... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html