Re: git rev-list --author/--committer b0rked with -F/--fixed-strings

["Giuseppe Bilotta" <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Because we allow you to give "-F" and "--author=foo" in any order, looking
> at the options we have seen already and adjusting the pattern depending on
> the fixed-string option in the code would not be workable.  You would have
> to instead queue up all the --grep/--author/--committer options until the
> very end and _then_ compile them at the end, after you saw all the other
> grep related options such as -i/-F/-E

I suspected as much ... basically the idea would be to transform
fixed-string searches into auto-quoted regexp matches, right? I wonder
what kind of speed hit this would give.

> I am not interested in helping people with attitude very much ;-)

Ouch, I'm sorry. Did I come through as having an attitude? The reason
why I specified I thought it was a bug was because, as you specified,
regexps are actually necessary with --author etc, so one might
consider it a simple flag incompatibility. Sorry.


-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta