Re: [PATCH] Teach "log -F --author=<match>" to behave better

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On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This extends the grep machinery so that a match insn can ignore user
> specified --fixed-string request, and uses the '( -e A --and -e B )'

(insn?)

>  * A variant of this would be to make the --author match always ignore -F,
>   which is now possible with the enhancement to the grep machinery.  But
>   it is unlikely that you would have regexp metacharacters in author
>   field, so it might not be necessary.

Well,  if the user greps for a dotted email address, not escaping the
search string might cause some false positives to pop up.

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
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