Re: [RFC PATCH] Make :/ accept a regex rather than a fixed pattern

> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:20:20 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] Make :/ accept a regex rather than a fixed pattern
>
> This also makes it trigger anywhere in the commit message, rather than
> just at the beginning. Which tends to be a lot more useful.
>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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>
> I'm re-sending, because after having this in my tree for several weeks 
> now, I actually end up still using it. 
>
> I agree that it's still not a wonderful thing, and it's entirely possible 
> that we should strive to use just HEAD in :/ commit finding rather than 
> all refs we can find, but for at least the kernel, I don't care (since my 
> tree tends to have just one main branch anyway, apart from some random 
> testing stuff I keep around).
>
> But even if we want to limit it to HEAD, that would be a separate patch.
>
> I've personally used it for things like
>
> 	git show :/mqueue	# did I apply that 'mqueue' patch?
> 	git show :/akpm		# what was the last patch I got from Andrew?
>
> and while in all cases I could admittedly have done exactly the same thing 
> with something like "git log -p -1 --grep=mqueue" instead, I've used it as 
> a nice shortcut.