Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > So this is very much debatable, but I'm including a patch for the > discussion to start. > > I never use ':/', and part of it is that it's so horribly cumbersome. I'd > _like_ to use it to do things like > > gitk :/slabh.. > > which would (right now) show what happened since I merged the 'slabh' > branch. But that doesn't work, I would need to write it as > > gitk :/"Merge branch 'slabh'".. A related but a larger issue is that I suspect this "two-dot" would not work, as the syntax looks for "Merge branch 'slabh'.." (two-dot taken literally). I also happen to think that the current ':/' is more or less useless because you cannot tell it to start digging from only these branches, and it becomes dice-throwing which commit it would find. Compared to these, I don't think anybody has much against using regex. I personally am all for it, but I am not sure how much regex makes it more useful. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html