> Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> writes: > > > I would have to say that there is already an established pattern to > pick ranges that normal people understand well and it would be silly > to invent another more verbose way to express the same thing. You > tell your Print Dialog which page to print with e.g. "-4,7,9-12,15-", > not ">=4 7 ...". > > Would the same notation be insufficient for our purpose? You do not > even have to worry about negation that way. > That will do, especially if the numbers are in ascending order. We won't have the odd cases of including a test and removing it later on. I think we won't need a --neg flag to take the negation of the tests in that range? -- 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