"John Cai via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The ref_excludes API is used to tell which refs should be excluded. However, > there are times when we would want to add refs to explicitly include as > well. 4fe42f326e (pack-refs: teach pack-refs --include option, 2023-05-12) > taught pack-refs how to include certain refs, but did it in a more manual > way by keeping the ref patterns in a separate string list. Instead, we can > easily extend the ref_excludes API to include refs as well, since this use > case fits into the API nicely. Hmph, how would this interact with the other topic in flight that touch the ref exclusion logic tb/refs-exclusion-and-packed-refs? Thanks.
