From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:09:22 GMT
Subject: Re: git log filtering
Message-ID: <7vps8l65fh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702071257490.8424@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>> This is very tempting but, ... hmmmm...
>
> I would actually prefer to have it be some marker on the expression 
> itself.
>
> We already do that '^' handling by hand for "author"/"committer" things. 
> We could do other things like that.
>
> Although I guess the downside of not doing standard regexps would be too 
> big.
>
> 		Linus

We could go pcre and let you say "(?i)".  That would all be post
1.5.0, though.