From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Interpret :/<pattern> as a regular expression
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:54:59 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706131953370.4059@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070613184109.GG10941@coredump.intra.peff.net>
Hi,
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 01:50:22AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > Earlier, Git interpreted the pattern as a strict prefix, which made
> > the operator unsuited in many cases.
>
> Thank you for working on this...I really like the :/ concept, but find
> myself wishing for a regex all the time. I have been meaning to do it
> since you introduced the original. :)
:-) Since you seem comfortable with regular expressions, maybe you can
help me: I am looking for a pattern which matches _any_ character, and one
which matches only non-newlines, both with and without REG_NEWLINE. Hmm?
Tia,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-13 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-13 0:50 [PATCH] Interpret :/<pattern> as a regular expression Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-13 1:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-13 13:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-13 4:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-13 11:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-13 11:17 ` (unknown) Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-13 12:11 ` [PATCH] Interpret :/<pattern> as a regular expression Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-13 18:41 ` Jeff King
2007-06-13 18:54 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-06-13 20:00 ` Jeff King
2007-06-13 22:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-14 7:48 ` Sam Vilain
2007-06-14 8:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-14 9:07 ` Sam Vilain
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