Hi, On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Sven Verdoolaege wrote: > On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 05:27:23PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > I suspect that with this patch, > > > > git rev-list --not --grep bugfix HEAD > > > > does not work as expected. Why? > > Well... I guess that depends on what you expect... Well, at least you hopefully that it is confusing. To use --not for grep patterns _as well_ as for revision arguments. > > Why not make "git rev-list --grep '!bugfix' HEAD" work? > > > > Yes, you would have to have a special exception that the prefix "!!" > > actually matches an exclamation mark, but I'd be willing to live with > > that. > > Hmm... what if you want to (not) match anything starting with > one or more '!' ? Yeah, that would not work. > How about I add a '--invert-match' option that would > apply to all following match options? > Or we could escape the '!' with backslash. If we want to match it at the beginning. Yes, that sounds more reasonable to me. 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