Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> To name a commit, you can now say
>>
>> git rev-parse ':::Initial revision of "git"'
>
> Alex Riesen and Shawn Pearce suggested ":/" instead of ":::", to reflect
> the searching nature ("/" is the key to search in "less" output).
>
> Comments?
Sounds good. "git show :/path" does not currently mean "find
/path in the index", so I do not see offhand it would interfere
with anything.
However, it would be worthwhile to plant an escape hatch for
future extension. Using short-and-sweet ":/" for the most
common case such as exact prefix match would be fine, but we
might want to say:
':/!' syntax is reserved for future extension and does
not look for a string that begins with "!".
one extension "do not do anything special" is defined
and is spelled as "!!" - so if you want to look for a
commit that begins with "!something", please spell it
as ':/!!something'
or something like that.
Obvious extension possibilities include:
":/!(r=regexp)"
":/!(a=author)"
":/!(d=2001-09-17)"
":/!(p=Documentation/)"
or various combination of them e.g.
":!(p=Documentation/)!(a=Johannes)Update command list"
to look for a commit by Johannes that touches Documentation/
area and oneline begins with "Update command list".
By the way, where do you start digging from? From all refs?
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