log: add -P as a synonym for --perl-regexp

Add a short -P option as a synonym for the longer --perl-regexp, for
consistency with the options the corresponding grep invocations
accept.

This was intentionally omitted in commit 727b6fc3ed ("log --grep:
accept --basic-regexp and --perl-regexp", 2012-10-03) for unspecified
future use.

Make it consistent with "grep" rather than to keep it open for future
use, and to avoid the confusion of -P meaning different things for
grep & log, as is the case with the -G option.

As noted in the aforementioned commit the --basic-regexp option can't
have a corresponding -G argument, as the log command already uses that
for -G<regex>.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t4202-log.sh b/t/t4202-log.sh
index dbed3efeee..2b07d1c0c2 100755
--- a/t/t4202-log.sh
+++ b/t/t4202-log.sh
@@ -404,8 +404,20 @@ test_expect_success 'log with various grep.patternType configurations & command-
 			--grep="(1|2)" >actual.fixed.short-arg &&
 		git log --pretty=tformat:%s -E \
 			--grep="\|2" >actual.extended.short-arg &&
+		if test_have_prereq PCRE
+		then
+			git log --pretty=tformat:%s -P \
+				--grep="[\d]\|" >actual.perl.short-arg
+		else
+			test_must_fail git log -P \
+				--grep="[\d]\|"
+		fi &&
 		test_cmp expect.fixed actual.fixed.short-arg &&
 		test_cmp expect.extended actual.extended.short-arg &&
+		if test_have_prereq PCRE
+		then
+			test_cmp expect.perl actual.perl.short-arg
+		fi &&
 
 		git log --pretty=tformat:%s --fixed-strings \
 			--grep="(1|2)" >actual.fixed.long-arg &&