Re: [PATCH] filter-branch: when dwim'ing a ref, only allow heads andtags

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@eudaptics.com>
Date: Jul 24, 2007, 11:04 UTC
Message-ID: <46A5DCBC.E585A69D@eudaptics.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707241134330.14781@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> -                       grep /"$ref")"
> +                       grep "refs/\(tags\|heads\)/$ref$")"

Thanks, but I don't think that this is a portable grep pattern:

$ echo "abc" | grep '$a\|x$' $ echo "abc" | egrep '(a|x)' abc

But then, this is on some AIX 4.3. How about:

   fgrep -e "refs/heads/$ref" -e "refs/tags/$ref"
or
   grep -e "^refs/heads/$ref" -e "^refs/tags/$ref"

-- Hannes

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