From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH] Interpret :/ as a regular expression Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:41:10 -0400 Message-ID: <20070613184109.GG10941@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jun 13 20:41:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HyXmd-0002rK-N2 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:41:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753771AbXFMSlQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:41:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759987AbXFMSlO (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:41:14 -0400 Received: from 66-23-211-5.clients.speedfactory.net ([66.23.211.5]:4064 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759975AbXFMSlN (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:41:13 -0400 Received: (qmail 14326 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2007 18:41:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net with (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 13 Jun 2007 18:41:25 -0000 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:41:10 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 01:50:22AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Earlier, Git interpreted the pattern as a strict prefix, which made > the operator unsuited in many cases. Thank you for working on this...I really like the :/ concept, but find myself wishing for a regex all the time. I have been meaning to do it since you introduced the original. :) -Peff