Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Add support for grep searches

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Apr 27, 2007, 03:47 UTC
Message-ID: <20070427034729.GU4489@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20070427034138.1646.15989.stgit@rover>

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:41:39AM CEST, Petr Baudis wrote:

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> The 'grep' type of search greps the currently selected tree for given
> regexp and shows the results in a fancy table with links into blob view.
> The number of shown matches is limited to 1000 and the whole feature
> can be turned off (grepping linux-2.6.git already makes repo.or.cz a bit
> unhappy).

It seems that with basically a single exception, Git is remarkably unemotional and cold...

	http://repo.or.cz/w?p=git.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=grep&s=hate%5B%5Ev%5D

...and pretty much all the feelings are brought to us from the wild CVS world...

	http://repo.or.cz/w?p=git.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=grep&s=love

  You could say that git lacks a human dimension here! Maybe we should at least
make it utter some awesome jokes at random moments (more usage errors = less
jokes for the user, that'll teach 'em).

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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