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

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