[Monotone-commits-diffs] net.venge.monotone.not-selector: 6990661f53ecd711e409b6cb2a0e173fb7defbb2

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revision:            6990661f53ecd711e409b6cb2a0e173fb7defbb2
date:                2012-02-13T18:52:02
author:              Richard Hopkins <address@hidden>
branch:              net.venge.monotone.not-selector
changelog:
Add documentation for 'not' extended selector

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@@ -2935,6 +2935,14 @@ @heading Composite selectors
 example, @code{difference(a:graydon;b:net.venge.monotone)} would return all
 revisions which have an @code{author} cert beginning with @code{graydon} which
 are not in the branch @code{net.venge.monotone}.
address@hidden not(A)
+Set complement; this returns all revisions not selected by A. For example,
address@hidden(c:testresult)} would return all revisions which do not have any
address@hidden certs. Conceptually @code{not(A)} is equivalent to
address@hidden(*, A)}, where @code{*} selects all revisions. The previous
+example to return all revisions which have an @code{author} cert beginning
+with @code{graydon} and are not in the branch @code{net.venge.monotone},
+can be written as @code{a:graydon/not(b:net.venge.monotone)}.
 @item lca(A;B)
 Least common ancestors; this is identical to
 @code{max((ancestors(A)|A)/(ancestors(B)|B))},