From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:40:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] pickaxe: allow -i to search in patch case-insensitively
Message-ID: <87wr75q34f.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20120229091855.GE14181@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 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.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch