Re: grep.patternType

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> >>  * "git grep" learned to use a non-standard pattern type by
> >> default if a configuration variable tells it to.
> >
> > This addition makes
> >
> >     git grep -e "(integer|buffer)"
> >
> > work as expected, when grep.patternType is set to "extended".
> >
> > Should this
> >
> >     git log --grep="(integer|buffer)"
> >
> > also honor the same configuration variable?  If not, why not?

I think this should respect grep.patternType.

> >
> > One more thing.  Currently you can say
> >
> >     git log -E --grep="(integer|buffer)"
> >
> > to ask for the ERE.  Should we also support -P to ask for pcre?  If
> > not, why not?

This also.

> 
> Answering to myself who has been in tying-loose-ends mode.
> 
> My answers to these questions are both yes, and I have a neatly
> lined up series that begins with a small bugfix and then
> enhancement, but I do not think these do not deserve to in the
> upcoming release.  The topic came too late, and even the fix is
> for a bug that has been with us for a long time.

I think I am the one to blame for this inconsistency.  When I
implemented "git-grep -P" I was thinking about making it work for all
regex operations in git but since I'm mostly using regexes with
git-grep I was too lazy to make it work with git-log.
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