From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 17:13:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] object name: introduce '^{/!-<negativepattern>}' notation
Message-ID: <xmqqpox8xcn6.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8Dar9sCkTg_SQsDUOWYNQ1PHjmA0KcgrvpvmeY=yVXPMg@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Stephen Smith <ischis2@cox.net> wrote:
>>> > +test_expect_success 'ref^{/!-}' '
>>> > +   test_must_fail git rev-parse master^{/!-}
>>> > +'
>
> Shouldn't it be ^{!/... instead of ^{/!... ? People could have a
> pattern starting with "!" and /! will change its meaning. On the other
> hand, anything else after { is still reserved and can safely be used.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/40460/focus=40477
clarifies the above, I think.


Back then we seem to have been thinking only about ":" as the
overall "search the history to name an object traversing from all
tips" prefix, but the current one is described in terms of the more
generally useful "<committish>^{/<pattern>}" syntax and the escape
hatch applies--they are both handled by get_sha1_oneline() the same
way.