From: "Giuseppe Bilotta" <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach "log -F --author=<match>" to behave better
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 15:56:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cb7bb73a0809040656n7f53c033w2b932d4bb5388f54@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vprnk5n3c.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> This extends the grep machinery so that a match insn can ignore user
> specified --fixed-string request, and uses the '( -e A --and -e B )'
(insn?)
> * A variant of this would be to make the --author match always ignore -F,
> which is now possible with the enhancement to the grep machinery. But
> it is unlikely that you would have regexp metacharacters in author
> field, so it might not be necessary.
Well, if the user greps for a dotted email address, not escaping the
search string might cause some false positives to pop up.
--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-04 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-04 6:47 git rev-list --author/--committer b0rked with -F/--fixed-strings Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-09-04 7:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-04 8:31 ` [PATCH] Teach "log -F --author=<match>" to behave better Junio C Hamano
2008-09-04 13:33 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-09-04 19:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-04 19:25 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-09-05 1:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-04 13:56 ` Giuseppe Bilotta [this message]
2008-09-04 14:09 ` Petr Baudis
2008-09-04 19:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-05 12:35 ` --all-match Teemu Likonen
2008-09-05 4:47 ` [PATCH] Teach "log -F --author=<match>" to behave better Junio C Hamano
2008-09-04 13:46 ` git rev-list --author/--committer b0rked with -F/--fixed-strings Giuseppe Bilotta
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