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From: Ferry Huberts <mailings@hupie•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: git & patterns
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 12:48:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DD3A402.3040802@hupie.com> (raw)

Hi list

After reading the manual page for git describe it was not clear to me what
kind of pattern the --match option should take. Was it to be
a shell pattern (to be expected) or a regular expression pattern?

So I dug in the code to find fnmatch: shell pattern.

Now my question(s):
- could the manual page be update to make this explicit please? (plus
other manual pages talking about (shell) patterns)
- could git start taking regular expression patterns please?

I'm using the --match option on git describe to generate version
information from and matching against a regular expression is soooo much
more powerful and allows me to fully define my naming convention while
shell patterns do not allow me to do so.

Or am I missing something?

grtz

-- 
Ferry Huberts

next             reply	other threads:[~2011-05-18 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-18 10:48 Ferry Huberts [this message]
2011-05-18 13:07 ` git & patterns Andreas Ericsson
2011-05-18 13:36   ` Ferry Huberts
2011-05-18 19:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-19  6:23   ` Ferry Huberts
2011-05-19  6:40     ` Tim Mazid
2011-05-19  6:43       ` Tim Mazid
2011-05-19  6:46         ` Ferry Huberts
2011-05-19  6:54           ` Tim Mazid
2011-05-19  6:47     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-19  6:54       ` Ferry Huberts

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