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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFD} Use regex's in :/ revision naming machinery
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 00:31:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100406043133.GA3901@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1004051551180.21411@i5.linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:00:59PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So this is very much debatable, but I'm including a patch for the 
> discussion to start.

FWIW, this came up quite a while ago and people generally seemed to
think it was a good idea, but the patch from Dscho (cc'd) never made it
upstream.

The old thread is here:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/50010

Personally, I think regex matching makes :/ a bit more usable, though
since that thread I have found I don't use :/ all that often (instead
needing to pick through the results of --grep looking for the commit in
question, at which point I just cut-and-paste the commit sha1). I agree
as was suggested elsewhere in the thread that searching from HEAD would
help.

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-06  4:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-05 23:00 [RFD} Use regex's in :/ revision naming machinery Linus Torvalds
2010-04-06  1:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-06  2:08   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-06  2:15   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-04-06  4:31 ` Jeff King [this message]
2010-04-06  7:55 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-04-06 14:19   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-04-07  1:04     ` Nazri Ramliy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-04-06  7:02 Yann Dirson

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