From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:24:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/16] config: add --literal-match option
Message-ID: <20080313132419.GA28564@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <fr9ivq$eh0$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:46:43PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> > +--literal-match::
> > +
> > +       Some invocations of git-config will limit their actions based on
> > +       matching a config value to a regular expression. If this option
> > +       is used, then any such matches are done as a string comparison
> > +       rather than as a regular expression match.
> > +
> 
> Why this option is not named --fixed-strings, as everywhere else, then?

Because I never use --fixed-strings anywhere else and didn't think of
it? :)

I think, though, that there is a key difference, and using that name
would lead to confusion. In grep, --fixed-strings means "find this fixed
_substring_ within the input" whereas this option means "find the value
that is byte-for-byte equal to this."

-Peff