From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:33:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Use regex for :/ matching
Message-ID: <7vaboogwmq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071206055200.GA23309@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Obviously the overall design and usage of :/ is going to take some
> thinking and is not 1.5.4 material. However, we do have it in its
> current form, and I think regex versus prefix string matching is
> orthogonal to the range issues. Should I post my rebased :/ regex patch,
> or do you want to just leave it for post-1.5.4?

Making what was string match to regex using the same syntax is a
regression, isn't it?  I do not use :/ very often myself, so I
personally would not mind but people who are used to using :/ may get
upset about the change.  I do not feel strongly enough for changing it
to regex to declare such a change unilaterally.