Re: [PATCH] object name: introduce ':::<oneline prefix>' notation

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 24, 2007, 01:30 UTC
Message-ID: <20070224013015.GA9021@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702240220300.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

I said:

> > > Alex Riesen and Shawn Pearce suggested ":/" instead of ":::", to 
> > argument? Why not just add a '--grep' or similar option to indicate that

Hmm, I completely misread your patch comments in the first place, so forget my suggestion; it obviously needs to be a per-committish indicator, not a per-command flag.

I think :/ is slightly easier on the eyes than :::. Plus it opens the door for :? to find the oldest such match (though I'm not sure if it would be by topology or date).

Of course it's starting to look a bit like line noise...maybe we just need :-/ and :-).

-Peff