From: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:57:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-grep: --and to combine patterns with and instead of or
Message-ID: <E1FwGgm-0006Nc-9a@moooo.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <7v3bdnkrfb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I see you are trying hard to think of a way to justify your
> original prefix "--and" (or --FOO) implementation, but I simply
> do not see much point in that.  I doubt changing the default
> operator from --or to --and is less confusing than changing the
> precedence for the users, so you would hear the same "I
> personally feel FOO should not even exist" objection from me.

It just happens to make more sense to me and I don't see a reason not to
add this. If no one else is interested in this I'll just stop arguing :)
Here again an overview of the arguments if anyone is interested:
- Less to type for common searches using only AND (or more ANDs than
  ORs).
- Easy to implement (both with and without extended expressions).
- AND/* is the normal implicit operator in other contexts than grep
  (math).
- The high precedence operator (AND) should be implicit rather than
  the low precedence one (OR) (so this is only fulfilled when the
  option is used).