From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, 36644@debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: bug#36644: Git log search
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 22:00:36 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnly548b.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h87antwq.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 25 Jul 2019 16:08:37 +0300")
>> > I also see your point: it would be nice to be able to document the
>> > semantics of PATTERN in a backend-independent way. But I think this
>> > is next to impossible in this case, both because of significant
>> > differences in the backend capabilities (e.g., bzr doesn't have the
>> > equivalent of Git's --fixed-strings, AFAICT), and because some backend
>> > allow great flexibility in interpreting PATTERN, under control of
>> > optional switches passed to the backend.
>>
>> The other option is to standardize on basic or extended regexp, and
>> simply give up for backends that can't support that.
>
> We could simply say "regular expression" and leave the details
> unspecified. But I think Juri said that fixed strings was the lowest
> common denominator, which is why I proposed a slightly more vague doc
> string. Juri, which backends don't support regular expressions?
The documentation of 'git-log' uses the term 'pattern' for a good reason
since it covers all possible values: basic-regexp, extended-regexp,
perl-regexp, fixed-strings.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-25 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-13 22:27 bug#36644: Git log search Juri Linkov
2019-07-15 15:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-07-15 22:27 ` Juri Linkov
2019-07-16 14:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-07-16 14:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-07-16 15:08 ` Robert Pluim
2019-07-16 20:20 ` Juri Linkov
2019-07-16 22:31 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-07-18 22:35 ` Juri Linkov
2019-07-24 14:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-07-16 20:15 ` Juri Linkov
2019-07-18 15:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-07-18 15:12 ` Robert Pluim
2019-07-18 18:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-07-18 18:11 ` Robert Pluim
2019-07-18 22:32 ` Juri Linkov
2019-07-24 15:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-07-24 15:46 ` Robert Pluim
2019-07-24 15:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-07-24 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-25 12:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-07-25 13:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-25 13:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-07-25 13:37 ` Robert Pluim
2019-07-25 19:00 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2019-07-25 18:55 ` Juri Linkov
2019-07-25 21:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-07-25 21:38 ` Juri Linkov
2019-07-24 16:13 ` Robert Pluim
2019-07-24 17:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-24 23:22 ` Juri Linkov
2019-07-25 12:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-07-25 18:50 ` Juri Linkov
2019-07-25 19:19 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-07-29 22:38 ` Juri Linkov
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