grep.patternType (was: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.0-rc0)

2012-10-03 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano writes: > * "git grep" learned to use a non-standard pattern type by default if >a configuration variable tells it to. This addition makes git grep -e "(integer|buffer)" work as expected, when grep.patternType is set to "extended". Should this git log --grep="(int

[ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.0-rc0

2012-10-01 Thread Junio C Hamano
A release candidate Git v1.8.0-rc0 is now available for testing at the usual places. There are a couple of leftover features we might merge before the final release, but other than that, this is meant to be more or less feature-complete preview of the upcoming 1.8.0. The release tarballs are foun