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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:09:22 -0800
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>> This is very tempting but, ... hmmmm...
>
> I would actually prefer to have it be some marker on the expression 
> itself.
>
> We already do that '^' handling by hand for "author"/"committer" things. 
> We could do other things like that.
>
> Although I guess the downside of not doing standard regexps would be too 
> big.
>
> 		Linus

We could go pcre and let you say "(?i)".  That would all be post
1.5.0, though.