Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes: > Plamen Totev <plamen.to...@abv.bg> writes: > > > pickaxe search also uses kwsearch so the case insensitive search with > > it does not work (e.g. git log -i -S). Maybe this is a less of a > > problem here as one is expected to search for exact string (hence > > knows the case) > > You reasoned correctly, I think. Pickaxe, as one of the building > blocks to implement Linus's ultimate change tracking tool [*1*], > should never pay attention to "-i". It is a step to finding the > commit that touches the exact code block given (i.e. "how do you > drill down?" part of $gmane/217 message). > > Thanks. > > [Footnote] > *1* http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/217
Now that I read the link again and gave the matter a thought I'm not so sure. In some contexts the case of the words does not matter. In SQL for example. Let's consider a SQL script file that contains the following line: select name, address from customers; At some point we decide to change the coding style to: SELECT name, address FROM customers; What should pickaxe search return - the first commit where the line is introduced or the commit with the refactoring? From this point of view I think the -i switch makes sense. The SQL is not the only case insensitive language - BASIC and Pascal come into my mind (those two I was using while I was in the high school :)). Also I think it makes sense (maybe even more?) for natural languages. For example after editing a text a sentence could be split into two. Then the first word of the second sentence may change its case. Of course the natural languages always complicate the things a bit. An ultimate tracking tools should be able to handle typo fixes, punctuation changes, etc. But I'm getting a bit off-topic. What I wanted to say is that in some contexts it makes sense (at least to me) to have case insensitive pickaxe search. Or I'm missing something and there is a better tools to use is such cases? Regards, Plamen Totev -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
