From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] git-tag: Add --regex option Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:47:43 -0800 Message-ID: <7vljsm3aow.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1233677512-1846-1-git-send-email-goulding@vivisimo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jake Goulding X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 04 08:49:19 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LUcVZ-0003Jr-UB for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:49:18 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751807AbZBDHrt (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 02:47:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751761AbZBDHrt (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 02:47:49 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:56405 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751277AbZBDHrs (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 02:47:48 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FF492A67F; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 02:47:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4ADD82A67B; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 02:47:45 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 1DCB6090-F290-11DD-BB8D-6F7C8D1D4FD0-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jake Goulding writes: > Allows the tag pattern to be expressed as a regular expression. We use shell globs for refname throughout the system (not just tags). Why is this a good thing, other than "because we can"?