From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 09:54:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] recognize pathspec magic without "--" disambiguation
Message-ID: <CACBZZX6K7ppVB0qYah76_+pjTKjsco3rHT0xRyKtF2H1dS4k_w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170525152739.t63dbsq2dojy2y2h@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 5:27 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>         git log :/foo.*bar

Another option would be to deprecate the :/rx syntax over some period
in favor of ^{/rx}.

I think it's too ugly to live, and really useless. It's equivalent to
"--grep=<rx> --all". Does anyone use this and not really mean to use
^{/rx}? E.g. "git show :/fix" might show a fix on some unrelated
branch you recently rebased.

>       will be treated as a pathspec (if it doesn't match a
>       commit message) due to the wildcard matching in
>       28fcc0b71.

So it might DWYM after hanging there looking at your entire history
for a commit message matching foo.*bar? And if you make such a commit
it'll start meaning something else entirely?