On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 1:08 AM, Plamen Totev <plamen.to...@abv.bg> wrote: > 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;
On top of this, pickaxe already supports icase even kws is used. But it only works for ascii, so either we fix it and support non-ascii, or we remove icase support entirely from diffcore_pickaxe(). I vote the former. -- Duy -- 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
