Hi, On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > Earlier, Git interpreted the pattern as a strict prefix, which made > > the operator unsuited in many cases. > > > > Now, the pattern is interpreted as a regular expression (which does not > > change the behaviour too much, since few onelines contain special regex > > characters), so that you can say > > > > git diff :/.*^Signed-off-by:.Zack.Brown > > > > to see the diff against the most recent reachable commit which was > > signed off by Zack, whose Kernel Cousin I miss very much. > > > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > > While this perhaps is an improvement and people who are not > interested in paying the price have a choice of not using this > silly syntax, I am moderately annoyed that the syntax does not > define "the most recent reachable" very well. It is more like > "the first one we happened to pick by diffing from reachable > refs". It would be more useful if it took "$commit:/$pattern" > form to limit the search among reachable ones from named commit. "Unfortunately", $commit:/$pattern is not a good syntax, since it suggests that you want to search _in_ $commit, not _from $commit. How about ':/!commit=$commit:$pattern'? Ciao, Dscho - 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
