Re: [PATCH] Add git-rev-list --invert-match

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 21, 2007, 09:10 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709210904210.28395@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070921041821.GA28245@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 02:12:54PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > Further, it probably makes sense to have the option to say _both_: "Find 
> > me a commit that contains Bart in one line, but not Simpson, and that 
> > does not contain the word "Sverdoolaege" at all."
> 
> This is perhaps a little hack-ish compared to better grep support in the
> core, but I find complex logic through command line options to be
> somewhat unreadable. I prefer something more Perl-ish like this:
> 
>   git-revgrep 'message =~ /bart/i
>                && message !~ /Simpson/
>                && author_name !~ /Sverdoolaege/'

Indeed, it has a certain elegance to it. However, I cannot specify any rev-list options with your method, not even "--stat" or "--pretty=format:%H(%s)".

So while your script is a good interim solution, I'd like to see a generic grep support for this feature.

Ciao, Dscho