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| author | Shawn O. Pearce <sop@google.com> | 2010-02-21 22:41:03 -0800 |
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| committer | Shawn O. Pearce <sop@google.com> | 2010-02-21 22:41:03 -0800 |
| commit | 665beaac0c595e6ee2d6b7fe1a7df3cc531bf6ca (patch) | |
| tree | 846ce5e535e276d5b75a0091e56001d871693ec8 | |
| parent | 3aa7b0dd37ea1758af52503b3b0f7b497f908434 (diff) | |
documentation: Describe how to do case insensitive commentlink
Change-Id: I89a3032293e7ad2dd5f1f348ea28e2fb3bd53403
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <sop@google.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config-gerrit.txt | 5 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/config-gerrit.txt b/Documentation/config-gerrit.txt index 215ad3fbd2..b3586c6c6c 100644 --- a/Documentation/config-gerrit.txt +++ b/Documentation/config-gerrit.txt @@ -395,6 +395,11 @@ character class `\s` requires `\\s` in the configuration file. The parser also terminates the line at the first `#`, so a match expression containing # must be wrapped in double quotes. + +To match case insensitive strings, a character class with both the +upper and lower case character for each position must be used. For +example, to match the string `bug` in a case insensitive way the match +pattern `[bB][uU][gG]` needs to be used. ++ A common pattern to match is `bug\\s+(\\d+)`. [[commentlink.name.link]]commentlink.<name>.link:: |