Re: [PATCH] Teach "log -F --author=<match>" to behave better

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Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>

Date

Sep 4, 2008, 13:56 UTC

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On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> This extends the grep machinery so that a match insn can ignore user
> specified --fixed-string request, and uses the '( -e A --and -e B )'

(insn?)

>  * A variant of this would be to make the --author match always ignore -F,
>   which is now possible with the enhancement to the grep machinery.  But
>   it is unlikely that you would have regexp metacharacters in author
>   field, so it might not be necessary.

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta