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[PATCH 1/4] Add '--fixed-strings' option to "git log --grep" and friends

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 26, 2008, 12:22 UTC
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Add support for -F | --fixed-strings option to "git log --grep" and friends: "git log --author", "git log --committer=<pattern>". Code is based on implementation of this option in "git grep".

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
---
This would simplify ignore-case searching for a fixed string from
within gitweb, as gitweb wouldn't then have to deal with differences
in quoting and unquoting (if you quote character which doesn't need
quoting, would git (grep) unquote it?) between searched phrase,
basic/extended regular expression as understood by git/by grep,
and regular expressions in Perl (when showing matched info).

[I am not sure if the above paragraph should be added to commit message, so it is in patch comments. Feel free to add it.]

This patch can be also seen as "consistency" patch: git-grep implements --fixed-strings, but "git log --grep" didn't.

P.S. I see that neither git-log, nor git-grep are converted to parseopt interface. What are plans for it, if any?

 Documentation/git-rev-list.txt     |    1 +
 Documentation/rev-list-options.txt |    5 +++++
 revision.c                         |   10 +++++++++-
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
index 5b96eab..a8d489f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 	     [ \--(author|committer|grep)=<pattern> ]
 	     [ \--regexp-ignore-case | \-i ]
 	     [ \--extended-regexp | \-E ]
+	     [ \--fixed-strings | \-F ]
 	     [ \--date={local|relative|default|iso|rfc|short} ]
 	     [ [\--objects | \--objects-edge] [ \--unpacked ] ]
 	     [ \--pretty | \--header ]
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index a8138e2..259072c 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -153,6 +153,11 @@ limiting may be applied.
 	Consider the limiting patterns to be extended regular expressions
 	instead of the default basic regular expressions.
 
+-F, --fixed-strings::
+
+	Consider the limiting patterns to be fixed strings (don't interpret
+	pattern as a regular expression).
+
 --remove-empty::
 
 	Stop when a given path disappears from the tree.
diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index d3e8658..5df7961 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -942,6 +942,7 @@ int setup_revisions(int argc, const char **argv, struct rev_info *revs, const ch
 	int left = 1;
 	int all_match = 0;
 	int regflags = 0;
+	int fixed = 0;
 
 	/* First, search for "--" */
 	seen_dashdash = 0;
@@ -1238,6 +1239,11 @@ int setup_revisions(int argc, const char **argv, struct rev_info *revs, const ch
 				regflags |= REG_ICASE;
 				continue;
 			}
+			if (!strcmp(arg, "--fixed-strings") ||
+			    !strcmp(arg, "-F")) {
+				fixed = 1;
+				continue;
+			}
 			if (!strcmp(arg, "--all-match")) {
 				all_match = 1;
 				continue;
@@ -1293,8 +1299,10 @@ int setup_revisions(int argc, const char **argv, struct rev_info *revs, const ch
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (revs->grep_filter)
+	if (revs->grep_filter) {
 		revs->grep_filter->regflags |= regflags;
+		revs->grep_filter->fixed = fixed;
+	}
 
 	if (show_merge)
 		prepare_show_merge(revs);
-- 
1.5.4.2
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  2. 1/4 Add '--fixed-strings' option to "git log --grep" and friendsJakub Narebski, Feb 26, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 27, 2008
  4. Jakub NarebskiFeb 27, 2008
  5. 1/4 Add '--fixed-strings' option to "git log --grep" and friendsJakub Narebski, Feb 27, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 27, 2008
  7. 2/4 gitweb: Change parse_commits signature to allow for multiple optionsJakub Narebski, Feb 26, 2008
  8. 3/4 gitweb: Simplify fixed string searchJakub Narebski, Feb 26, 2008
  9. 4/4 gitweb: Clearly distinguish regexp / exact match searchesJakub Narebski, Feb 26, 2008

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