Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/2] add a perl compatible regex match flag to git describe

2015-12-27 Thread brian m. carlson
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 11:59:50PM +0100, Mostyn Bramley-Moore wrote: > git describe currently only supports glob matching with the --matches flag. > It would be useful to support regular expressions. > > PCRE is already an optional dependency from git grep, I wonder if posix or > extended regexes

[PATCH/RFC 0/2] add a perl compatible regex match flag to git describe

2015-12-27 Thread Mostyn Bramley-Moore
git describe currently only supports glob matching with the --matches flag. It would be useful to support regular expressions. PCRE is already an optional dependency from git grep, I wonder if posix or extended regexes would be preferable? Some old discussion of this as a candidate feature is her