On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:31:19AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > To handle --author=<match> request, the code created a grep instruction > that tried to match a line that begins with 'author ' and <match> > somewhere on the same line. "begins with 'author '" obviously needs to be > expressed with an regexp '^author '. > > When the user specifies --fixed-string, this does not work at all. > > 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 )' > construct from the grep machinery in order to express "has to begin with > '^author ', and also the same line must match the given pattern". > > Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> Wow, this is clever solution! FWIW, Acked-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> There goes one of my long-standing TODO items. :-) -- 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
