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Re: ':/<oneline prefix>' notation doesn't support full file syntax

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jul 4, 2008, 00:33 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0807040232200.2849@eeepc-johanness>
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<56b7f5510807031127j10e33f3bl516180f7a9b5b5db@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Dana How wrote:
> I was surprised to see Dscho advocating removing this feature 
> altogether.
Why is everybody surprised when I admit mistakes?

Granted, --grep did not exist when I wrote :/ but now it does, and there is no good reason to keep an ill-defined construct in Git when we have something better.

Ciao, Dscho

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  4. Johannes SchindelinJul 3, 2008
  5. Dana HowJul 3, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 3, 2008
  7. Johannes SchindelinJul 4, 2008
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