Bug#626461: gitk doesn't correctly search with regexps

2011-05-12 Thread Ph. Marek
Package: gitk Version: 1:1.7.4.4-1 Severity: normal Gitk offers to search in commits adding/removing string: exact; this works, I can search for eg. function names, and the corresponding commits are highlighted. Now, changing the match type field to Regexp works for simple function names

Bug#626461: gitk doesn't correctly search with regexps

2011-05-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Ph. Marek wrote: Gitk offers to search in commits adding/removing string: exact; this works, I can search for eg. function names, and the corresponding commits are highlighted. Now, changing the match type field to Regexp works for simple function names (consisting of [a-zA-Z]) too;

Bug#626461: gitk doesn't correctly search with regexps

2011-05-12 Thread Philipp Marek
Hello Jonathan, thank you very much for the quick and elaborate answer! Looks like a documentation bug. :) ... What you might have been looking for is rather a grep diff search, which would look for commits that touched lines matching a particular regex. This should be doable for anyone

Bug#626461: gitk doesn't correctly search with regexps

2011-05-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
forcemerge 589283 626461 quit Philipp Marek wrote: Thanks for the offer, but I'm already busy on too many other things ;-) Thanks and no problem. Merging with a request for grep diff search, since I suspect that will be the simplest way to document this. When the pulldown offers an