From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mostyn Bramley-Moore Subject: [PATCH/RFC 0/2] add a perl compatible regex match flag to git describe Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 23:59:50 +0100 Message-ID: <1451257192-5755-1-git-send-email-mostynb@opera.com> Cc: Mostyn Bramley-Moore To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Dec 28 00:00:22 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aDKIX-000104-Vy for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 00:00:22 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754646AbbL0XAR (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Dec 2015 18:00:17 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f51.google.com ([74.125.82.51]:35676 "EHLO mail-wm0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754573AbbL0XAP (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Dec 2015 18:00:15 -0500 Received: by mail-wm0-f51.google.com with SMTP id l126so248770360wml.0 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 15:00:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=opera-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id; bh=qllu/4WsYBmbsO5qqRUNi9sZxsrwNlTJCwbiGsge+ek=; b=foycLaGUsvwCmwt9WschEh/1EbNuqqcIOHE0AWzVHYyfgKt0q1UXiIEEGs6r49C6mk CvmW7/uOpGarzz/aelK16kNn60RnUot0efpSQAG4k7G0nSBgcAiamNoE1RQv3sz2r5E0 /5AANPtWzRVvw93m2hR1SRGu61C3dEBng+17HQaDTpj768z4oiasjVJXRg3q0zUos8/L Q9J/m7QfPu5R3leX4vf7iKtSLy7ZQYhqXmQ03LPFo/dXpogpu/h/oDH8xXlvSjfuai9k YXDudKcdUGay07YcIVNYbU6ZHEcKP/9hgyBKncb97pix7cD81W0vChi4pppwWZHZF/NW /ZQA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id; bh=qllu/4WsYBmbsO5qqRUNi9sZxsrwNlTJCwbiGsge+ek=; b=Hv9mwc0oTTGSe92DGTKsad1U9mi87/zdHQxsHK3vh+/o4P/3OxBjTQPQ3275R+AdJP R6dbBUv6fjqNCcKeQFJ/O13MFnwuz57kZ0ndnECAP1mZQFo+hSmnf5ksk67p0aXQg99u jyxMGbPuP0ugWu1UMIFKKgyxrTCrM+LD/XFfMNYpafkNO1DF58yarkLqx8hiKtkDltNq tTw7Y1OcqeIzABs2l5bMkL7xjvM9pzeVSo9cGLqhMA9k5FJgbXOa+3diJ46sFL7PSfUF bMEWQF5vTJE6b2uQOIg6O8J609oxKNk//+PceNEb7lWcNwQycKvSJXiGGb0HPgmaCl2+ npEA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQn3xm3JubBBRBaR3mDLYeelNF70ZkWOTtS6do9RUt+0ggWx4JPBWp477UrCYj6eT5uE/MrqdVLYOhn+sAv53KSVPRrvuQ== X-Received: by 10.28.17.8 with SMTP id 8mr10432514wmr.65.1451257214573; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 15:00:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from teardrop.skrumpis (h151n12-g-kt-d2.ias.bredband.telia.com. [213.64.207.151]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w17sm12929872wmw.15.2015.12.27.15.00.13 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 27 Dec 2015 15:00:13 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.5.0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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(-) -- 2.5.0