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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb•org>
Cc: Git mailing list <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Using gitrevisions :/search style with other operators
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:09:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vpqufpr7f.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9D675671-693D-4B59-AF2A-0EFE4C537362@sb.org> (Kevin Ballard's message of "Fri\, 5 Nov 2010 15\:38\:23 -0700")

Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb•org> writes:

> There is one operator that doesn't allow this at all, and that's the commit
> message search (e.g. :/foo). Every character after the :/ is taken to be
> part of the regular expression. This is rather unfortunate as it prevents me
> from doing something like :/foo^ to refer to the parent of the matching commit.
>
> Does anybody have any opinions on changing this operator?

If you mean to change what ":/Merge branch 'kb/blame-author-email'" means,
and make my scripts suddenly start breaking, I would be moderately unhappy.

It is fine if we can enhance the extended SHA-1 vocabulary by introducing
a syntax that used to be illegal, hence there is no chance somebody was
using it for other purposes.

I wonder if we can introduce something like ':( ... )' to group things.
E.g.

    $ git log 'HEAD..:( :/Merge branch 'kb/blame-author-email' )^2'

I haven't visited the particular codepath for some time, so I don't know
offhand how involved the change would be, though.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-08 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-05 22:38 [RFC] Using gitrevisions :/search style with other operators Kevin Ballard
2010-11-08 19:09 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2010-11-08 22:11   ` Kevin Ballard
2010-11-09  5:16     ` Jeff King
2010-11-09 15:59       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-11-09 16:08         ` Jeff King
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-09  7:30 Yann Dirson
2010-11-09  8:06 ` Kevin Ballard
2010-11-09  9:24   ` Yann Dirson
2010-11-10  0:18     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-11-10  0:33       ` Kevin Ballard
2010-11-10  7:32         ` Yann Dirson
2010-11-10  7:46           ` Kevin Ballard
2010-11-10  7:46             ` Yann Dirson
2010-11-10 15:26               ` Jakub Narebski
2010-11-10 17:23                 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-11-10 18:19                   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-11-09 16:10 ` Jeff King

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