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Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] pickaxe: allow -i to search in patch case-insensitively

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Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Date
Feb 29, 2012, 11:40 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> I am a little dubious of the decision in jc/diff-ignore-case to have
> "-i" imply "--ignore-case". For "git diff", it makes perfect sense. But
> for "git log", it feels wrong. Ignoring case for the regexps is very
> common, and ignoring case for the diffs is uncommon (it is, after all, a
> feature we have gone many years without, and I don't remember anyone
> bringing it up until recently).

Doubly so because (to the best of my list-reading efforts) when it was brought up recently, the interpretation as "case-insensitive diff generation" was by mistake/misreading.

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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Message 9 of 10 in “"log --regexp-ignore-case -S/-G<string>"”
  1. 0/2 "log --regexp-ignore-case -S/-G<string>"Junio C Hamano, Feb 29, 2012
  2. 1/2 grep: use static trans-case tableJunio C Hamano, Feb 29, 2012
  3. Jeff KingFeb 29, 2012
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 29, 2012
  5. 2/2 pickaxe: allow -i to search in patch case-insensitivelyJunio C Hamano, Feb 29, 2012
  6. Jeff KingFeb 29, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 29, 2012
  8. Jeff KingFeb 29, 2012
  9. Thomas RastFeb 29, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoFeb 29, 2012

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