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[PATCH 2/6] RelNotes: mention "log: make --regexp-ignore-case work with --perl-regexp"

From
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 20, 2017, 14:19 UTC
Message-ID
<20170720141927.18274-3-avarab@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20170720141927.18274-1-avarab@gmail.com>

To inform users that they can use --regexp-ignore-case now, and that existing scripts which relied on that + PCRE may be buggy. See 9e3cbc59d5 ("log: make --regexp-ignore-case work with --perl-regexp", 2017-05-20).

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt
index 9a4c2bb649..c125f8fd68 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt
@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
  * "git log" learned -P as a synonym for --perl-regexp, "git grep"
    already had such a synonym.
 
+ * "git log" didn't understand --regexp-ignore-case when combined with
+   --perl-regexp. This has been fixed.
+
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
  * The default packed-git limit value has been raised on larger
-- 
2.13.2.932.g7449e964c
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Message 3 of 12 in “2.14 RelNotes improvements”
  1. 0/6 2.14 RelNotes improvementsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2017
  2. 1/6 RelNotes: mention "log: add -P as a synonym for --perl-regexp"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2017
  3. 2/6 RelNotes: mention "log: make --regexp-ignore-case work with --perl-regexp"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2017
  4. 3/6 RelNotes: mention "sha1dc: optionally use sha1collisiondetection as a submodule"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2017
  5. 5/6 RelNotes: remove duplicate mention of PCRE v2Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2017
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2017
  7. 6/6 RelNotes: add more notes about PCRE in 2.14Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2017
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2017
  9. 4/6 RelNotes: mention that PCRE v2 exposes the same syntaxÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2017
  10. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2017
  11. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2017
  12. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJul 21, 2017

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