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Re: git log filtering

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Feb 7, 2007, 17:25 UTC
Message-ID
<Pine.LNX.4.63.0702071822430.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To
<Pine.LNX.4.64.0702070856190.8424@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Hi,
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Show 9 quoted lines
> You can do
> 
> 	git log --grep="Signed-off-by:.*akpm"
> 
>    on the kernel archive to see which ones were signed off by Andrew.
> 
> So the above works, and catches *most* uses. But it has problems if you 
> want to do something fancier (and I think that includes something as 
> simple as doing a case-insensitive grep).
[TIC PATCH] revision.c: accept "-i" to make --grep case insensitive
When calling
	git log --grep=blabla -i --grep=blublu

the expression "blabla" is greppend case _sensitively_, but "blublu" case _insensitively_.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 revision.c |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index 42ba310..843aa8e 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 #include "grep.h"
 #include "reflog-walk.h"
 
+static int case_insensitive_grep = 0;
+
 static char *path_name(struct name_path *path, const char *name)
 {
 	struct name_path *p;
@@ -742,6 +744,8 @@ static void add_grep(struct rev_info *revs, const char *ptn, enum grep_pat_token
 		opt->status_only = 1;
 		opt->pattern_tail = &(opt->pattern_list);
 		opt->regflags = REG_NEWLINE;
+		if (case_insensitive_grep)
+			opt->regflags |= REG_ICASE;
 		revs->grep_filter = opt;
 	}
 	append_grep_pattern(revs->grep_filter, ptn,
@@ -1042,6 +1046,11 @@ int setup_revisions(int argc, const char **argv, struct rev_info *revs, const ch
 				add_header_grep(revs, "committer", arg+12);
 				continue;
 			}
+			if (!strcmp(arg, "-i") ||
+					!strcmp(arg, "--case-insensitive")) {
+				case_insensitive_grep = 1;
+				continue;
+			}
 			if (!strncmp(arg, "--grep=", 7)) {
 				add_message_grep(revs, arg+7);
 				continue;
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Message 6 of 34 in “git log filtering”
  1. Don ZickusFeb 7, 2007
  2. Jakub NarebskiFeb 7, 2007
  3. Uwe Kleine-KönigFeb 7, 2007
  4. Johannes SchindelinFeb 7, 2007
  5. Linus TorvaldsFeb 7, 2007
  6. Johannes SchindelinFeb 7, 2007
  7. Linus TorvaldsFeb 7, 2007
  8. Fix "git log -z" behaviourLinus Torvalds, Feb 7, 2007
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 7, 2007
  10. Don ZickusFeb 7, 2007
  11. Linus TorvaldsFeb 7, 2007
  12. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2007
  13. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2007
  14. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2007
  15. Linus TorvaldsFeb 10, 2007
  16. Don ZickusFeb 7, 2007
  17. Linus TorvaldsFeb 7, 2007
  18. Linus TorvaldsFeb 7, 2007
  19. Junio C HamanoFeb 7, 2007
  20. Linus TorvaldsFeb 7, 2007
  21. Jeff KingFeb 8, 2007
  22. Johannes SchindelinFeb 8, 2007
  23. Jeff KingFeb 8, 2007
  24. Johannes SchindelinFeb 9, 2007
  25. Shawn O. PearceFeb 9, 2007
  26. Johannes SchindelinFeb 9, 2007
  27. Sergey VlasovFeb 9, 2007
  28. Jeff KingFeb 9, 2007
  29. Johannes SchindelinFeb 9, 2007
  30. Jeff KingFeb 9, 2007
  31. Johannes SchindelinFeb 9, 2007
  32. pcre performance, was Re: git log filteringJohannes Schindelin, Mar 7, 2007
  33. Paolo BonziniMar 7, 2007
  34. Horst H. von BrandFeb 8, 2007

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