Re: git log filtering

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Feb 7, 2007, 21:03 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702071257490.8424@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v64ad7l12.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
> This is very tempting but, ... hmmmm...

I would actually prefer to have it be some marker on the expression itself.

We already do that '^' handling by hand for "author"/"committer" things. We could do other things like that.

Although I guess the downside of not doing standard regexps would be too big.

		Linus

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