From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:29:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sha1_name.c: update comment to mention :/foo syntax
Message-ID: <7vpqw6u142.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpq8w2ug8u0.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

>>> +	 * :/foo -> last commit whose subject starts with foo
>>
>> Documenting what hasn't been is a good thing, but is it really up-to-date?
>>
>> Isn't it "a randomly chosen recent commit whose subject contains regexp
>> foo" these days?
>
> I don't know.

I was vaguely recalling this one when I wrote the above.

commit 57895105c4ff083d7c9bc59b2b88b9b5176c1915
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Fri Apr 23 08:20:20 2010 -0700

    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>
    Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>