On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Turning "grep.extendedregexp" from boolean to an extended boolean to > allow "grep.extendedregexp = perl" might be a better alternative. > That way, the user wouldn't have to worry about 7 variants of > grep.fooRegexp variables twenty years down the road, even though the > set of possible values given to "grep.extendedregexp" may have grown > over time by then. Yeah, that sounds good. I've re-written the patch to accommodate the change allowing for the current boolean settings of true/false as well as "perl". For the sake of completeness (verbosity? pedantry?) I also included a setting for "extended" which is equivalent to true. With this sort of change, would a more generic "grep.regexpMode", "grep.patternType" or something similar perhaps be more descriptive, with "grep.extendedRegexp" being aliased for backwards compatibility purposes? I could also add that functionality if desired. -- 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