Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> Essentially, because both main and master have similar names, tab >> completion requires remembering to type one additional character than >> I am used to. > > Heh, I didn't think anybody considered that implication so far; the fact > that they were similar names has generally been considered a positive. I > agree it would be annoying. FWIW, I've been saying that 'maint' will become harder to type all along ever since I heard 'main'. https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqtuz9tq30.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > This is definitely a reasonable thing to want, and it has come up off > and on over the years. One search term for the list archive is "negative > refspecs", though it turns up a lot of useless hits when the two words > are not directly adjacent. > > This old thread might be worth reading: > > https://lore.kernel.org/git/20140124090104.GA396@x4/ > > and there is even a patch in there: > > https://lore.kernel.org/git/20140125013433.GA22336@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > but I didn't go over it carefully enough to know whether it is utter > trash, or something that could be used as a starting point. I think the idea is interesting. I sometimes find negative pathspecs quite useful, and I suspect negative refspecs would also be.
