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SubjectRe: BK-kernel-tools/shortlog update

one suggestion I would make would be to break out the regex into a
seperate file, that way you will no longer need to touch the script once
the core logic is correct.

got this working nicely to count users based upon patterns.

--jauder

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:10:31PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > > Btw, one feature I'd like to see in shortlog is the ability to use
> > > regexps for email address matching, ie something like
> > >
> > > 'torvalds@.*transmeta.com' => 'Linus Torvalds'
> > > ...
> > > 'alan@.*swansea.linux.org.uk' => 'Alan Cox'
> > > ...
> > > 'bcrl@redhat.com' => 'Benjamin LaHaise',
> > > 'bcrl@.*' => '?? Benjamin LaHaise',
> > > ..
> > >
> > > I don't know whether you can force perl to do something like this, but if
> > > somebody were to try...
>
> Perl is very regex-friendly. Sure it can do this :)
>
>
> > I'd like to keep the hash for all those addresses that aren't wildcards
> > and that aren't regexps -- we have fast, that is O(1) to O(log n),
> > access to the hash (depending on Perl's implementation) and we have
> > worse than O(n) for regexp, where n is the count of address strings or
> > regexps.
> >
> > Would you agree to a version that has a set of fixed addresses and a
> > separate list of regexps, tries the hash first and then a list of
> > regexps? That sounds like a) easy addition, b) good performance to me
> > (before implementing it). If so, I could add some code for that feature.
>
> Do we really care about performance here?
>
> I think maintain-ability is probably more important.
>
> In any case, splitting the lists into "fixed" and "regex" doesn't seem
> like a bad idea, provided that the change was fairly easy and
> self-contained.
>
> Jeff
>
>
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