On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Because we allow you to give "-F" and "--author=foo" in any order, looking > at the options we have seen already and adjusting the pattern depending on > the fixed-string option in the code would not be workable. You would have > to instead queue up all the --grep/--author/--committer options until the > very end and _then_ compile them at the end, after you saw all the other > grep related options such as -i/-F/-E I suspected as much ... basically the idea would be to transform fixed-string searches into auto-quoted regexp matches, right? I wonder what kind of speed hit this would give. > I am not interested in helping people with attitude very much ;-) Ouch, I'm sorry. Did I come through as having an attitude? The reason why I specified I thought it was a bug was because, as you specified, regexps are actually necessary with --author etc, so one might consider it a simple flag incompatibility. Sorry. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta -- 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
