On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:03, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 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?
* :nth(N) and :g, to show nth match and all matches, respectively; might
be not necessary as it impinges a bit on --grep=<regexp> domain
* :N / :notesRef to search also through attached notes
If we was possible, perhaps also
* :b / :basechar to ignore accents and other marks (according to commit
encoding).
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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