as per title, here's a test case showing that either options are fine, but they break swh identify when used together:
zack@noziere:~/swh-environment/swh-model$ swh identify . swh:1:dir:82ee3976a560609a54650073b761080dec03397f . zack@noziere:~/swh-environment/swh-model$ swh identify -r . | tail -n 1 swh:1:cnt:a5196d1be8fb59edf8062bef36d3a602e0812139 ./.git/info/exclude zack@noziere:~/swh-environment/swh-model$ swh identify -x foo . swh:1:dir:82ee3976a560609a54650073b761080dec03397f . zack@noziere:~/swh-environment/swh-model$ swh identify -x foo -r . Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/zack/.cache/virtualenvs/swh/bin/swh", line 33, in <module> sys.exit(load_entry_point('swh.core', 'console_scripts', 'swh')()) File "/home/zack/dati/projects/sw-heritage/git/swh-environment/swh-core/swh/core/cli/__init__.py", line 185, in main return swh(auto_envvar_prefix="SWH") File "/home/zack/.cache/virtualenvs/swh/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 829, in __call__ return self.main(*args, **kwargs) File "/home/zack/.cache/virtualenvs/swh/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 782, in main rv = self.invoke(ctx) File "/home/zack/.cache/virtualenvs/swh/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1259, in invoke return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx)) File "/home/zack/.cache/virtualenvs/swh/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1066, in invoke return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params) File "/home/zack/.cache/virtualenvs/swh/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 610, in invoke return callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/home/zack/dati/projects/sw-heritage/git/swh-environment/swh-model/swh/model/cli.py", line 297, in identify dir_obj = model_of_dir(path, exclude_patterns) File "/home/zack/dati/projects/sw-heritage/git/swh-environment/swh-model/swh/model/cli.py", line 82, in model_of_dir ignore_directories_patterns(path, exclude_patterns) File "/home/zack/dati/projects/sw-heritage/git/swh-environment/swh-model/swh/model/from_disk.py", line 324, in ignore_directories_patterns sre_patterns = set(extract_regex_objs(root_path, patterns)) File "/home/zack/dati/projects/sw-heritage/git/swh-environment/swh-model/swh/model/from_disk.py", line 309, in extract_regex_objs regex = fnmatch.translate((pattern.decode())) AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode' zack@noziere:~/swh-environment/swh-model$