Re: Getting pickaxe to perform looser matches, or regex matching

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

> I am a regular user of gitk's nice pickaxe search field. But it will often
> fail to find what I am looking for because the part of the string I can
> provide is not the part that changes.
>
> For example, I am looking for patches that change any calls to function
> foo(). I want to match on
>
> - foo(1, 0, 1024)
> + foo(0, 1024, 1)
>
> but I don't know the parameters. As the "pickaxe" sections in gitdiffcore
> and git log manpages indicate, it won't match on -S'foo' because foo itself
> was not added or removed.
>
> A regex like "foo(.*" would work, but pickaxe doesn't seem to take
> regexes, and while I could roll my own wrapper around git-log --patch,
> this sounds like an important and useful variant to pickaxe that is
> missing.
>
> Or that has a hidden switch I haven't found ;-)

Like more expensive -G that was recently added?