[PATCH 0/5] Move --no-exclude to --exclude=(true|false|flag)

[Jameson Graef Rollins]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:42:00 +0000, Mark Walters <markwalters1009 at gmail.com> wrote:
> This series changes the --no-exclude options to count, search and show
> to --exclude=(true|false|flag). It also changes the default to true
> rather than flag for speed and for uncluttered command line output.
> 
> This series replaces the series
> id:"1330779918-28024-1-git-send-email-markwalters1009 at gmail.com". Jani
> suggested the --exclude= rather than --with-excluded approach as being
> both clearer and easier to extend.
> 
> It is intend to apply on top of the bugfix series
> id:"1331728014-32698-1-git-send-email-markwalters1009 at gmail.com".

And indeed it does.  I've tested and reviewed and it looks and works
great.

> There should be no significant logic change (i.e. the logic in the lib
> is unchanged) but the defaults for the command lines are different.

I fully support this change.  The new logic makes sense to me and is a
good compromise between usability and flexibility.

> The general idea is that when complete threads are requested then we
> always return complete threads including any messages matching the
> exclude tags (where appropriate these are flagged excluded), but we
> may not return threads that only match in excluded messages.
> 
> The rationale is that it is awkward to deal with a thread with
> "missing" messages.

Agreed.  I should note that for all uses of excludes that I can think of
one would not expect to be excluding messages from threads that one
would otherwise be keeping.  So I certainly have no problem not
excluding 

Thanks again for working on this, Mark.  Your efforts are much
appreciated.  This is nice new functionality.

jamie.
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