From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-grep: --and to combine patterns with and instead of or
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:11:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e83t0m$4s0$2@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7v1wt6ik4x.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> The --near Matthias talk about is syntactically not like --and
> but more like --not. It takes a condition for a line after
> that, and loosens it to cover nearby lines. So "-e A"
> means "the line must have A on it" but "--near -e A" means "the
> line must be nearby a line that satisfies `-e A'".
>
> Matthias's "--near EXP" is spelled as "-e '' --near EXP" (the
> first one is always true) with our syntax, in other words.
>
> I do not think either of these semantics is invalid; they are
> just different. The version by Matthias is more general and
> more expressive.
It also uses the fact that grep search for _lines_, the fact I have forgot
about. But if we cannot search for multiline regexp using git-grep,
Matthias version is truly more expressive, especially with context limiting
extension.
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-30 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-25 15:38 [PATCH] git-grep: allow patterns starting with - Matthias Lederhofer
2006-06-25 15:47 ` Timo Hirvonen
2006-06-25 16:07 ` [PATCH] correct documentation for git grep Matthias Lederhofer
2006-06-25 23:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-06-25 23:39 ` Matthias Lederhofer
2006-06-26 0:06 ` Matthias Lederhofer
2006-06-26 6:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-06-26 0:02 ` [PATCH] git-grep: --and to combine patterns with and instead of or Matthias Lederhofer
2006-06-29 22:20 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2006-06-29 22:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-06-30 2:25 ` Matthias Lederhofer
2006-06-30 4:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-06-30 7:46 ` Matthias Lederhofer
2006-06-30 7:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-06-30 10:08 ` [PATCH] git-grep: boolean expression on pattern matching Junio C Hamano
2006-06-30 10:24 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-06-30 10:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-06-30 15:11 ` Matthias Lederhofer
2006-06-30 10:57 ` [PATCH] git-grep: --and to combine patterns with and instead of or Matthias Lederhofer
2006-06-30 15:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-06-30 17:04 ` Matthias Lederhofer
2006-06-30 17:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-06-30 17:33 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-06-30 17:49 ` Matthias Lederhofer
2006-06-30 17:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-06-30 18:20 ` Matthias Lederhofer
2006-06-30 18:03 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-06-30 18:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-06-30 19:11 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2006-06-30 20:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-03 7:54 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-06-25 16:18 ` [PATCH] git-grep: allow patterns starting with - Matthias Lederhofer
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