Re: git log filtering

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 8, 2007, 22:33 UTC
Message-ID: <20070208223336.GA9422@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702081905570.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 07:06:25PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> May I register a complaint? This is yet _another_ dependency.

Unlike other dependencies, I think it's quite natural to make it a conditional dependency. If you have pcre, you get more featureful regular expressions. If you don't, you get posix regular expressions. Do you object to a few extra lines in the Makefile?

-Peff

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