From: Libor Pechacek <lpechacek@suse.cz>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation fixes in git-config
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:46:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110123194538.GA4372@localhost.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110121162537.GD21840@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Fri 21-01-11 11:25:37, Jeff King wrote:
> I am half-tempted to mark the lowercasing of the regex as deprecated (or
> at least discouraged).
That's actually side effect of
http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=commitdiff;h=2fa9a0fb31cbf01e8318a02c3e222d7fd3fd0a83
Don't see any intent to support "mixed-sensitivity" matching in it.
> It's such a hack, and I don't think we will ever improve to make it work in
> the general case, as regexes are simply too complex for us to handle all
> possible inputs.
As far as I understand git uses host library implementation of regcomp and
regexec so we cannot fix that side. Writing code to modify regexes is not
worth the effort.
FWIW I'm in favor of deprecating this functionality.
Libor
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Libor Pechacek
SUSE L3 Team, Prague
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-23 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-08 14:46 git-config does not check validity of variable names Libor Pechacek
2011-01-11 5:59 ` Jeff King
2011-01-19 10:01 ` Libor Pechacek
2011-01-19 14:11 ` [PATCH] Sanity-ckeck config " Libor Pechacek
2011-01-20 23:22 ` Jeff King
2011-01-21 0:06 ` Jeff King
2011-01-21 10:02 ` Libor Pechacek
2011-01-21 10:23 ` [PATCH v2] " Libor Pechacek
2011-01-21 16:23 ` Jeff King
2011-01-27 14:28 ` [PATCH v3] Sanity-check " Libor Pechacek
2011-01-27 22:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-28 14:53 ` Libor Pechacek
2011-01-30 19:40 ` [PATCH v4] " Libor Pechacek
2011-02-10 22:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-11 18:52 ` Libor Pechacek
2011-01-19 14:14 ` [PATCH] Documentation fixes in git-config Libor Pechacek
2011-01-21 0:27 ` Jeff King
2011-01-21 10:20 ` Libor Pechacek
2011-01-21 10:25 ` [PATCH v2] " Libor Pechacek
2011-01-21 16:25 ` Jeff King
2011-01-23 19:46 ` Libor Pechacek [this message]
2012-03-01 8:19 ` [PATCH v3] " Libor Pechacek
2012-03-01 9:08 ` Jeff King
2012-03-01 10:54 ` Libor Pechacek
2012-03-01 16:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-01 10:59 ` [PATCH v4] " Libor Pechacek
2011-01-27 14:52 ` [PATCH] Disallow empty section and variable names Libor Pechacek
2011-01-30 20:34 ` [PATCH v2] " Libor Pechacek
2011-01-31 7:48 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-01-31 9:17 ` Libor Pechacek
2011-01-31 9:29 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-01-31 13:08 ` [PATCH v3] " Libor Pechacek
2011-01-31 16:48 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-02-01 7:13 ` [PATCH v4] " Libor Pechacek
2011-02-10 22:49 ` Junio C Hamano
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