From: Mostyn Bramley-Moore <mostynb@opera.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mostyn Bramley-Moore <mostynb@opera.com>
Subject: [PATCH/RFC 0/2] add a perl compatible regex match flag to git describe
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 23:59:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1451257192-5755-1-git-send-email-mostynb@opera.com> (raw)
git describe currently only supports glob matching with the --matches flag.
It would be useful to support regular expressions.
PCRE is already an optional dependency from git grep, I wonder if posix or
extended regexes would be preferable?
Some old discussion of this as a candidate feature is here, though nobody put
together a patch as far as I can see:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/173873
Mostyn Bramley-Moore (2):
describe: mention glob in the --matches help text
describe: add --pcre-match option
Documentation/git-describe.txt | 5 +++
builtin/describe.c | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
t/README | 3 +-
t/t6120-describe.sh | 29 ++++++++++++++---
4 files changed, 103 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
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2.5.0
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-27 22:59 Mostyn Bramley-Moore [this message]
2015-12-27 22:59 ` [PATCH/RFC 1/2] describe: mention glob in the --matches help text Mostyn Bramley-Moore
2015-12-27 22:59 ` [PATCH/RFC 2/2] describe: add --pcre-match option Mostyn Bramley-Moore
2015-12-27 23:39 ` [PATCH/RFC 0/2] add a perl compatible regex match flag to git describe brian m. carlson
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