Re: [PATCH/RFC] Use regex for :/ matching

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:17:18AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

So in short:

 * I do not think extending it to mean a set of commits (with some
   definition of how the set is computed) is a good idea.  It can stay
   "name one commit that matches this string" without losing usefulness,
   and I think it should;

 * The definition of the "match" can be tweaked and introducing regexp
   might be a good way;

 * The definition of the "match" may become more useful if we can limit
   which refs to dig from.

Obviously the overall design and usage of :/ is going to take some
thinking and is not 1.5.4 material. However, we do have it in its
current form, and I think regex versus prefix string matching is
orthogonal to the range issues. Should I post my rebased :/ regex patch,
or do you want to just leave it for post-1.5.4?

-Peff