Re: [PATCH 0/2] [RFD] Using gitrevisions :/search style with other operators

On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

2010/12/9 Jakub Narebski [off-list ref]:

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I wonder if it would be possible to make :/<regex> (which looks a bit
like searching the index) to be an alias to --all^{/<regex>}...

It looks a bit strange to my eyes to merge normal option name with
revision syntax. But I think it's possible. Do we allow branch/tag
name with leading '-'?

Well, with below proposal it would simply be

  --all ^{/<regexp>}
 

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Or if we can make ^{/<regex>} to act on revision range specified by
earlier commits, so for example foo..bar^{/<regex>} would work.

There is another case: branch/tag selection. Instead of looking in all
refs, people may want to look only in nd/* branches. My branches are
almost flat, so I don't find any use. But someone might. And we can
solve the "all branches" case above with simply "*". The exact syntax,
I don't know.

  --glob=heads/nd/ ^{/<regexp>}

Similarly to the --all case.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland