From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] pickaxe: allow -i to search in patch case-insensitively
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:40:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wr75q34f.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120229091855.GE14181@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:18:55 -0500")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> I am a little dubious of the decision in jc/diff-ignore-case to have
> "-i" imply "--ignore-case". For "git diff", it makes perfect sense. But
> for "git log", it feels wrong. Ignoring case for the regexps is very
> common, and ignoring case for the diffs is uncommon (it is, after all, a
> feature we have gone many years without, and I don't remember anyone
> bringing it up until recently).
Doubly so because (to the best of my list-reading efforts) when it was
brought up recently, the interpretation as "case-insensitive diff
generation" was by mistake/misreading.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-29 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-29 0:20 [PATCH v2 0/2] "log --regexp-ignore-case -S/-G<string>" Junio C Hamano
2012-02-29 0:20 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] grep: use static trans-case table Junio C Hamano
2012-02-29 8:28 ` Jeff King
2012-02-29 8:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-29 0:20 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] pickaxe: allow -i to search in patch case-insensitively Junio C Hamano
2012-02-29 8:35 ` Jeff King
2012-02-29 8:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-29 9:18 ` Jeff King
2012-02-29 11:40 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2012-02-29 18:05 ` Junio C Hamano
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