* through history and returning the first commit whose message starts
* the given regular expression.
*
- * For future extension, ':/!' is reserved. If you want to match a message
- * beginning with a '!', you have to repeat the exclamation mark.
+ * For negative-matching, prefix the pattern-part with '!-', like: ':/!-WIP'.
+ *
+ * For a literal '!' character at the beginning of a pattern, you have to repeat
+ * that, like: ':/!!foo'
+ *
+ * For future extension, all other sequences beginning with ':/!' are reserved.
*/
/* Remember to update object flag allocation in object.h */
{
struct commit_list *backup = NULL, *l;
int found = 0;
+ int negative = 0;
regex_t regex;
if (prefix[0] == '!') {
- if (prefix[1] != '!')
- return -1;
prefix++;
+
+ if (prefix[0] == '-') {
+ prefix++;
+ negative = 1;
+ } else if (prefix[0] != '!') {
+ return -1;
+ }
}
if (regcomp(®ex, prefix, REG_EXTENDED))
continue;
buf = get_commit_buffer(commit, NULL);
p = strstr(buf, "\n\n");
- matches = p && !regexec(®ex, p + 2, 0, NULL, 0);
+ matches = negative ^ (p && !regexec(®ex, p + 2, 0, NULL, 0));
unuse_commit_buffer(commit, buf);
if (matches) {
if (!starts_with(rel, "./") && !starts_with(rel, "../"))
return NULL;
- if (!startup_info)
- die("BUG: startup_info struct is not initialized.");
-
if (!is_inside_work_tree())
die("relative path syntax can't be used outside working tree.");