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From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach "log -F --author=<match>" to behave better
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:09:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080904140902.GY10544@machine.or.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vprnk5n3c.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:31:19AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> To handle --author=<match> request, the code created a grep instruction
> that tried to match a line that begins with 'author ' and <match>
> somewhere on the same line.  "begins with 'author '" obviously needs to be
> expressed with an regexp '^author '.
> 
> When the user specifies --fixed-string, this does not work at all.
> 
> This extends the grep machinery so that a match insn can ignore user
> specified --fixed-string request, and uses the '( -e A --and -e B )'
> construct from the grep machinery in order to express "has to begin with
> '^author ', and also the same line must match the given pattern".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Wow, this is clever solution! FWIW,

Acked-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>

There goes one of my long-standing TODO items. :-)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-04 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-04  6:47 git rev-list --author/--committer b0rked with -F/--fixed-strings Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-09-04  7:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-04  8:31   ` [PATCH] Teach "log -F --author=<match>" to behave better Junio C Hamano
2008-09-04 13:33     ` Teemu Likonen
2008-09-04 19:06       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-04 19:25         ` Teemu Likonen
2008-09-05  1:04           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-04 13:56     ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-09-04 14:09     ` Petr Baudis [this message]
2008-09-04 19:34       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-05 12:35         ` --all-match Teemu Likonen
2008-09-05  4:47       ` [PATCH] Teach "log -F --author=<match>" to behave better Junio C Hamano
2008-09-04 13:46   ` git rev-list --author/--committer b0rked with -F/--fixed-strings Giuseppe Bilotta

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