Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Le 5 août 2020 à 02:37, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> a écrit : > > 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. > > I tried searching "negative refspecs" (*with* the double quotes) and I get 20 results so it > seems to work. Although interestingly it doesn't find this message you wrote I'm responding to > because "negative" and "refspec" are on separate lines... I'm CC-ing Eric in case he knows more > about this limitation. Initially I thought it was phrase searching being disabled on lore (Xapian 1.2, "chert" backend). However, I just tried on lore and it shows Jeff's message from 2020-08-05 6:37 UTC: https://lore.kernel.org/git/?q=%22negative+refspecs%22 So maybe it was a delay due to Xapian's MVCC mechanism; but that shouldn't be HOURS off (maybe minutes at most), assuming you tried to search shortly before you sent the message I'm replying to at 22:12 UTC... My v1 instance at public-inbox.org (which uses Xapian 1.4 and the "glass" backend) shows it, too: https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=%22negative+refspecs%22 You could also try NEAR and ADJ (I don't have much experience with those): https://xapian.org/docs/queryparser.html
