From: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:59:44 GMT
Subject: Re: git log filtering
Message-ID: <200702080159.l181xiK3021514@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702071257490.8424@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > This is very tempting but, ... hmmmm...
> 
> I would actually prefer to have it be some marker on the expression 
> itself.
> 
> We already do that '^' handling by hand for "author"/"committer" things. 
> We could do other things like that.
> 
> Although I guess the downside of not doing standard regexps would be too 
> big.

Use Perl's regexps? the pcre library packs them, and they have all sorts of
goodies like markers in the expression itself. 
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