Andrew Sayers <andrew-git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I don't see how to actually split out the branch name without calling > sed or using one of the disallowed ${} constructs. So I compared the > following commands on my PC (2.1 GHz dual-core Athlon) using a > repository with 100 empty commits between HEAD and a git-svn-id: > > time git log | \ > sed -ne "/^ git-svn-id: / { s/^ git-svn-id: "\ > "$remote_branch\/\([^@]*\).*/\1/p ; q }" > > time git log -1 --grep="^git-svn-id: $remote_branch" | \ > sed -ne "s/^ git-svn-id: $remote_branch\/\([^@]*\).*/\1/p" What disallowed ${} constructs? First, ${var#pattern}, ${var##pattern}, ${var%pattern} and ${var%%pattern} are POSIX, so you can use it in git shell scripts. Second, this is _bash_ completion, so you can use also bash-specific expansion, like ${var/pattern/string} or ${var//pattern/string}. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- 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