From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:46:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] log --grep: honor grep.patterntype etc. configuration variables
Message-ID: <7vehle18y5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20121004081732.GD31305@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Hmm. So I think this is a nice feature for some people, but I wonder if
> we would run into any plumbing compatibility issues. People do tend to
> use "log" as plumbing (since rev-list is not as capable). On the other
> hand, I'd think most internal uses of "log --grep" would be passing
> something along from the user, and the user would be happy to have it
> interpreted by their chosen set of rules.

This does make "rev-list --grep" aware of the configuration but at
the same time --basic-regexp and friends are also available to it.