From: Jeff King Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:31:34 GMT Subject: Re: [RFD} Use regex's in :/ revision naming machinery Message-ID: <20100406043133.GA3901@coredump.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:00:59PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So this is very much debatable, but I'm including a patch for the > discussion to start. FWIW, this came up quite a while ago and people generally seemed to think it was a good idea, but the patch from Dscho (cc'd) never made it upstream. The old thread is here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/50010 Personally, I think regex matching makes :/ a bit more usable, though since that thread I have found I don't use :/ all that often (instead needing to pick through the results of --grep looking for the commit in question, at which point I just cut-and-paste the commit sha1). I agree as was suggested elsewhere in the thread that searching from HEAD would help. -Peff