On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > 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). That part works. We do the dot-dot handling first. But: > 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. I do agree that :/ would be much better if it just started from HEAD, rather than from any branch. It doesn't matter too much for me, but that's because for the kernel I tend to have just one branch (with random occasional topic-branches, but since I do merging rather than real development, that's the rare case) > 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. I have to admit that I never use it. The reason I did that silly patch is that today I thought that I _could_ use it, but then my naive gitk :/slabh.. thing didn't work, and I wondered why. Would I actually use it more regularly if it was a regex? And if it had saner semantics wrt branches? I dunno. Maybe my try at using it today was the last time I'd ever try to use it again, regardless. Linus -- 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