Hi,
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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.
That's also what Shawn said.
> 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 "!".
Okay. Will rework.
> 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"
They are much harder to implement. So I'll leave that to others :-)
> By the way, where do you start digging from? From all refs?
Yes, all refs. In order of the date.
Ciao,
Dscho
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