Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation fixes in git-config

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On Fri 21-01-11 11:25:37, Jeff King wrote:
> I am half-tempted to mark the lowercasing of the regex as deprecated (or
> at least discouraged).

That's actually side effect of
http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=commitdiff;h=2fa9a0fb31cbf01e8318a02c3e222d7fd3fd0a83
Don't see any intent to support "mixed-sensitivity" matching in it.

> It's such a hack, and I don't think we will ever improve to make it work in
> the general case, as regexes are simply too complex for us to handle all
> possible inputs.

As far as I understand git uses host library implementation of regcomp and
regexec so we cannot fix that side.  Writing code to modify regexes is not
worth the effort.

FWIW I'm in favor of deprecating this functionality.

Libor
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Libor Pechacek
SUSE L3 Team, Prague
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