Re: [PATCH 0/2] [RFD] Using gitrevisions :/search style with other operators

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 9, 2010, 00:44 UTC
Message-ID: <201012090144.19858.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=AyCxn=dcKQQmT0_6Oc36AX6XDA4Dhhk7WLSN0@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> 2010/12/9 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:

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> > I wonder if it would be possible to make :/<regex> (which looks a bit
> > like searching the index) to be an alias to --all^{/<regex>}...
> 
> It looks a bit strange to my eyes to merge normal option name with
> revision syntax. But I think it's possible. Do we allow branch/tag
> name with leading '-'?

Well, with below proposal it would simply be

  --all ^{/<regexp>}

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> > Or if we can make ^{/<regex>} to act on revision range specified by
> > earlier commits, so for example foo..bar^{/<regex>} would work.
> 
> There is another case: branch/tag selection. Instead of looking in all
> refs, people may want to look only in nd/* branches. My branches are
> almost flat, so I don't find any use. But someone might. And we can
> solve the "all branches" case above with simply "*". The exact syntax,
> I don't know.

  --glob=heads/nd/ ^{/<regexp>}

Similarly to the --all case.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland