ref-filter: add --no-contains option to tag/branch/for-each-ref

Change the tag, branch & for-each-ref commands to have a --no-contains
option in addition to their longstanding --contains options.

This allows for finding the last-good rollout tag given a known-bad
<commit>. Given a hypothetically bad commit cf5c7253e0, the git
version to revert to can be found with this hacky two-liner:

    (git tag -l 'v[0-9]*'; git tag -l --contains cf5c7253e0 'v[0-9]*') |
        sort | uniq -c | grep -E '^ *1 ' | awk '{print $2}' | tail -n 10

With this new --no-contains option the same can be achieved with:

    git tag -l --no-contains cf5c7253e0 'v[0-9]*' | sort | tail -n 10

As the filtering machinery is shared between the tag, branch &
for-each-ref commands, implement this for those commands too. A
practical use for this with "branch" is e.g. finding branches which
were branched off between v2.8.0 and v2.10.0:

    git branch --contains v2.8.0 --no-contains v2.10.0

The "describe" command also has a --contains option, but its semantics
are unrelated to what tag/branch/for-each-ref use --contains for. A
--no-contains option for "describe" wouldn't make any sense, other
than being exactly equivalent to not supplying --contains at all,
which would be confusing at best.

Add a --without option to "tag" as an alias for --no-contains, for
consistency with --with and --contains.  The --with option is
undocumented, and possibly the only user of it is
Junio (<xmqqefy71iej.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>). But it's
trivial to support, so let's do that.

The additions to the the test suite are inverse copies of the
corresponding --contains tests. With this change --no-contains for
tag, branch & for-each-ref is just as well tested as the existing
--contains option.

In addition to those tests, add a test for "tag" which asserts that
--no-contains won't find tree/blob tags, which is slightly
unintuitive, but consistent with how --contains works & is documented.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 51 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/t/t3201-branch-contains.sh b/t/t3201-branch-contains.sh
index daa3ae82b7..0ef1b6fdcc 100755
--- a/t/t3201-branch-contains.sh
+++ b/t/t3201-branch-contains.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-test_description='branch --contains <commit>, --merged, and --no-merged'
+test_description='branch --contains <commit>, --no-contains <commit> --merged, and --no-merged'
 
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
@@ -45,6 +45,22 @@ test_expect_success 'branch --contains master' '
 
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'branch --no-contains=master' '
+
+	git branch --no-contains=master >actual &&
+	>expect &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'branch --no-contains master' '
+
+	git branch --no-contains master >actual &&
+	>expect &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'branch --contains=side' '
 
 	git branch --contains=side >actual &&
@@ -55,6 +71,16 @@ test_expect_success 'branch --contains=side' '
 
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'branch --no-contains=side' '
+
+	git branch --no-contains=side >actual &&
+	{
+		echo "  master"
+	} >expect &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'branch --contains with pattern implies --list' '
 
 	git branch --contains=master master >actual &&
@@ -65,6 +91,14 @@ test_expect_success 'branch --contains with pattern implies --list' '
 
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'branch --no-contains with pattern implies --list' '
+
+	git branch --no-contains=master master >actual &&
+	>expect &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'side: branch --merged' '
 
 	git branch --merged >actual &&
@@ -126,7 +160,9 @@ test_expect_success 'branch --no-merged with pattern implies --list' '
 test_expect_success 'implicit --list conflicts with modification options' '
 
 	test_must_fail git branch --contains=master -d &&
-	test_must_fail git branch --contains=master -m foo
+	test_must_fail git branch --contains=master -m foo &&
+	test_must_fail git branch --no-contains=master -d &&
+	test_must_fail git branch --no-contains=master -m foo
 
 '
 
@@ -136,7 +172,8 @@ test_expect_success 'Assert that --contains only works on commits, not trees & b
 	Some blob
 	EOF
 	) &&
-	test_must_fail git branch --contains $blob
+	test_must_fail git branch --contains $blob &&
+	test_must_fail git branch --no-contains $blob
 '
 
 # We want to set up a case where the walk for the tracking info
@@ -168,4 +205,15 @@ test_expect_success 'branch --merged with --verbose' '
 	test_i18ncmp expect actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'branch --contains combined with --no-contains' '
+	git branch --contains zzz --no-contains topic >actual &&
+	cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
+	  master
+	  side
+	  zzz
+	EOF
+	test_cmp expect actual
+
+'
+
 test_done