Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> Can we use ! modifier for other ^{} too? What I have in mind is how to
> say ^{commit} that has two parents. Or even better, "search from the
> given tip for a commit that has two parents and the commit message
> matches 'foo'". Hmm.. too complex. Perhaps "^{grep: <grep arguments>}"
> that pulls the whole git-grep functionality in.
My thoughts, in no particular order:
- '!' can be a pain in the neck to supply on the bash command line.
Single quotes and backslash quoting work while double quotes do
not, unless 'set +H' has been run. But that's not a huge deal and
arguably it's a bash misfeature.
- What is the intended use for this family of modifiers? I sort
of understand ^{:i/... } for people that forget what case they
have used, but why the :nth and others?
- Why do we have to carve out the namespace right away, anyway? If
we just ^{/... } for the ordinary "start here" search, that leaves
room for anything after the { other than "/<pattern>" and a few
fixed strings like "upstream", "tree", etc, right? It might be
easier to anticipate what syntax will be useful when there is
functionality to go with it.
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