On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Which means that the approach taken by the patch to only allow > exclusion of negative ones makes the idea only 50% useful compared > to its potential. And I suspect that "we can start from 50% which > is better than 0% and later fill the other 50%" would not work in > this case, without ripping out the "SKIP on object" approach and > redoing the "--except" support from scratch, because "SKIP on > object" fundamentally cannot undo the effects of the negative ones, > because it records the information at a wrong level. I think it is not 50%, it is 98%. I think one or two persons might use this secondary feature if ever, and I think waiting for that implementation will delay the feature that 98% of people would use, and maybe block it entirely. -- Felipe Contreras -- 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