Re: [PATCH 3/3] revision traversal: --author, --committer, and --grep.

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> I wanted to default it to left anchored, so this was somewhat
> deliberate, but this is probably subject to taste.

I know that I'd prefer a rule where

 "--author=^Junio"

would result in the grep-pattern being "^author Junio", but without the 
initial '^' it would be "^author .*Junio".

So something like this, perhaps? It allows the regular left anchoring 
syntax ('^' at the start of a pattern), but defaults to the default grep 
behaviour ("anywhere in the line").

		Linus

---
diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index 26dd418..bca1229 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -677,6 +677,7 @@ int handle_revision_arg(const char *arg,
 static void add_header_grep(struct rev_info *revs, const char *field, const char *pattern)
 {
 	char *pat;
+	const char *prefix;
 	int patlen, fldlen;
 
 	if (!revs->header_filter) {
@@ -689,8 +690,13 @@ static void add_header_grep(struct rev_i
 
 	fldlen = strlen(field);
 	patlen = strlen(pattern);
-	pat = xmalloc(patlen + fldlen + 3);
-	sprintf(pat, "^%s %s", field, pattern);
+	pat = xmalloc(patlen + fldlen + 10);
+	prefix = ".*";
+	if (*pattern == '^') {
+		prefix = "";
+		pattern++;
+	}
+	sprintf(pat, "^%s %s%s", field, prefix, pattern);
 	append_grep_pattern(revs->header_filter, pat,
 			    "command line", 0, GREP_PATTERN);
 }