Re: [RFD} Use regex's in :/ revision naming machinery

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Apr 6, 2010, 07:55 UTC
Message-ID: <4BBAE904.6010105@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1004051551180.21411@i5.linux-foundation.org>

Am 4/6/2010 1:00, schrieb Linus Torvalds:

> I never use ':/', and part of it is that it's so horribly cumbersome. I'd 
> _like_ to use it to do things like 
> 
> 	gitk :/slabh..

Rhethoric question: Do you mean history _starting_ at the commit that contains "slabh" or _ending_ at the commit that contains "slabh" followed by two arbitrary characters?

If :/ is pattern-ized in some way, then IMO pattern matching syntax would be more use-friendly than (extended) regular expresssions, particluarly also because the single-character wildcard would be ? and avoid the otherwise overloaded dot.

-- Hannes