Rough notes following help from a human in #devguide in Discord for FreeBSD, https://discord.com/channels/727023752348434432/783418678279929896
Git commits to the FreeBSD ports tree may have an unpredictable number of spaces in the approval line
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=fc8a32e96a7a72096ed30d4abf0a0aa7b425c1c5 (2022-12-10)
Approved by: dbaio@
- twelve spaces after the colon
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=02de50dcbd9aec2fcf1c0f4a4fd0fe6e25085458 (2021-04-18)
Approved by: dbaio@
- one space
git -C /usr/ports log --extended-regexp --grep='Approved by: {1,}dbaio'
- finds those two.
Git commits to the FreeBSD ports tree may have an unpredictable number of horizontal tabs in the approval line
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=b4fc2a71b177f4a1d9824eb246f25140d929a34f (2022-03-14)
Approved by: ports-secteam (zeising)
- two tabs after the colon
git -C /usr/ports log --no-expand-tabs --extended-regexp --grep='Approved by:[[:cntrl:] ]{1,}ports'
- finds that commit, amongst many others that were approved by ports or ports⋯something-or-other
git -C /usr/ports log --no-expand-tabs --extended-regexp --grep='Approved by:[[:cntrl:] ]{1,}port'
- broader, includes approvals by portmaster@⋯, portmgr, portmgr@, and so on.
Team names should be discoverable. …
To Dan Nelson for being extraordinarily helpful, and patient, in Discord.
grep(1) https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=grep&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD
Regular expression - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression
Regular Expressions https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap09.html
Regular Expressions/POSIX-Extended Regular Expressions - Wikibooks, open books for an open world https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Regular_Expressions/POSIX-Extended_Regular_Expressions
Git - git-log Documentation https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log
- --no-expand-tabs in particular.