Re: [PATCH 0/2] [RFD] Using gitrevisions :/search style with other operators

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 9, 2010, 01:42 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTin1SjEzBnLd-HK9fANShLezAKHAOai9MyF-cuoT@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201012090144.19858.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>> 2010/12/9 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
>
>> > I wonder if it would be possible to make :/<regex> (which looks a bit
>> > like searching the index) to be an alias to --all^{/<regex>}...
>>
>> It looks a bit strange to my eyes to merge normal option name with
>> revision syntax. But I think it's possible. Do we allow branch/tag
>> name with leading '-'?
>
> Well, with below proposal it would simply be
>
>  --all ^{/<regexp>}

This hardly works with range and may conflict with "--all" being already used by some commands.

I think we can move '/' out of {}, the space between '/' and '{' can be used for optional parameters: ^/{foo}.

-- 
Duy