Subject: Re: Why does "git log -G<regex>" works with "regexp-ignore-case" but not with other regexp-related options?

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 09:59:39 -0700

Michael J Gruber <[email-masked]> writes:

> We have engine-switching options and engine-modification options. The
> latter are certainly good in the expression itself. Maybe even the
> former, though I don't know how to switch away from fixed-strings in
> that way...

I do not think mixing matching engines in a single request makes
much sense. As the internal machinery is not even prepared to do
that, even though it is prepared to apply engine-modifications ones
to each grep term AFAIK, let's not go there.