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Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] ref-filter: add option to match literal pattern

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
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Jul 11, 2015, 09:26 UTC
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Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Since 'ref-filter' only has an option to match path names
>>> add an option for regular pattern matching.
>>
>> There is nothing "regular" about the pattern matching you are
>> adding.
>>
>> Everywhere else we use patterns on refs we call wildmatch(), which
>> is an enhanced implementation of fnmatch(3), and you are doing the
>> same in this new codepath.
>>
>> Just drop that word from here (and if you said something similar in
>> the documentation, drop "regular" ffrom there as well).  It would
>> invite confusion with regular expression matching, which we will not
>> do for refs.
>
> Ok, will do. Thanks

Just dropping "regular" leads to a strange sentence, since the path name match is also a kind of pattern-matching. I'd write

Since 'ref-filter' only has an option to match path names, add an option for plain fnmatch pattern-matching.

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  1. 00/10 Port tag.c to use ref-filter APIsKarthik Nayak, Jul 9, 2015
  2. 01/10 ref-filter: add %(refname:shortalign=X) optionKarthik Nayak, Jul 9, 2015
  3. 02/10 ref-filter: add option to filter only tagsKarthik Nayak, Jul 9, 2015
  4. 03/10 ref-filter: support printing N lines from tag annotationKarthik Nayak, Jul 9, 2015
  5. Matthieu MoyJul 9, 2015
  6. Karthik NayakJul 10, 2015
  7. 04/10 ref-filter: add support to sort by versionKarthik Nayak, Jul 9, 2015
  8. Matthieu MoyJul 9, 2015
  9. Karthik NayakJul 10, 2015
  10. Karthik NayakJul 10, 2015
  11. Matthieu MoyJul 10, 2015
  12. Karthik NayakJul 11, 2015
  13. 05/10 ref-filter: add option to match literal patternKarthik Nayak, Jul 9, 2015
  14. Matthieu MoyJul 9, 2015
  15. Karthik NayakJul 10, 2015
  16. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2015
  17. Karthik NayakJul 11, 2015
  18. Matthieu MoyJul 11, 2015
  19. Karthik NayakJul 11, 2015
  20. 06/10 Documentation/tag: remove double occurance of "<pattern>"Karthik Nayak, Jul 9, 2015
  21. Christian CouderJul 9, 2015
  22. Karthik NayakJul 9, 2015
  23. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2015
  24. Karthik NayakJul 12, 2015
  25. 07/10 tag.c: use 'ref-filter' data structuresKarthik Nayak, Jul 9, 2015
  26. 08/10 tag.c: use 'ref-filter' APIsKarthik Nayak, Jul 9, 2015
  27. Matthieu MoyJul 9, 2015
  28. Karthik NayakJul 9, 2015
  29. Matthieu MoyJul 9, 2015
  30. Karthik NayakJul 10, 2015
  31. Matthieu MoyJul 9, 2015
  32. 08/10 tag.c: use 'ref-filter' APIsKarthik Nayak, Jul 9, 2015
  33. Duy NguyenJul 12, 2015
  34. Karthik NayakJul 12, 2015
  35. Duy NguyenJul 13, 2015
  36. Karthik NayakJul 13, 2015
  37. 09/10 tag.c: implement '--format' optionKarthik Nayak, Jul 9, 2015
  38. 10/10 tag.c: implement '--merged' and '--no-merged' optionsKarthik Nayak, Jul 9, 2015
  39. Matthieu MoyJul 9, 2015
  40. Karthik NayakJul 11, 2015
  41. Matthieu MoyJul 11, 2015
  42. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2015
  43. Karthik NayakJul 11, 2015
  44. Duy NguyenJul 12, 2015
  45. Duy NguyenJul 12, 2015
  46. Karthik NayakJul 12, 2015
  47. Duy NguyenJul 13, 2015
  48. Karthik NayakJul 13, 2015

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