Re: [PATCH 0/2] [RFD] Using gitrevisions :/search style with other operators

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>>>> 2010/12/9 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>>> I wonder if it would be possible to make :/<regex> (which looks a bit
>>>>> like searching the index) to be an alias to --all^{/<regex>}...
>>>>
>>>> It looks a bit strange to my eyes to merge normal option name with
>>>> revision syntax. But I think it's possible. Do we allow branch/tag
>>>> name with leading '-'?
>>>
>>> Well, with below proposal it would simply be
>>>
>>>  --all ^{/<regexp>}
>>
>> This hardly works with range and may conflict with "--all" being
>> already used by some commands.
>
> It is '--all' like in "git log --all".
>
> The proposed semantics for ^{/foo} (i.e. not attached to revision)
> would be that it acts on all positive revs on the left of it, replacing
> them.  But that might be not easy to do, and it feels a bit
> overengineered.

Yes, maybe.

>> I think we can move '/' out of {}, the space between '/' and '{' can
>> be used for optional parameters: ^/{foo}.
>
> Do you mean using e.g. ^/:i{foo} for :ignorecase, instead of ^{:i/foo}
> or ^{i/foo}?

Yes. I find "^/" easier to read than "^{/". But "^{/" is more
consistent to the rest.
-- 
Duy