Re: [PATCH] object name: introduce ':::<oneline prefix>' notation

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> >> To name a commit, you can now say
> >> 
> >> 	git rev-parse ':::Initial revision of "git"'
> >
> > Alex Riesen and Shawn Pearce suggested ":/" instead of ":::", to reflect 
> > the searching nature ("/" is the key to search in "less" output).
> >
> > Comments?
> 
> Sounds good.  "git show :/path" does not currently mean "find /path in 
> the index", so I do not see offhand it would interfere with anything.

> However, it would be worthwhile to plant an escape hatch for future 
> extension.  Using short-and-sweet ":/" for the most common case such as 
> exact prefix match would be fine, but we might want to say:
> 
> 	':/!' syntax is reserved for future extension and does
> 	not look for a string that begins with "!".

> Obvious extension possibilities include:
> 
> 	":/!(r=regexp)"
>         ":/!(a=author)"
> 	":/!(d=2001-09-17)"
> 	":/!(p=Documentation/)"
> 
> or various combination of them e.g.
> 
> 	":!(p=Documentation/)!(a=Johannes)Update command list"