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, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index a46f70c..9c44eae 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ endif::git-rev-list[]
 	Consider the limiting patterns to be fixed strings (don't interpret
 	pattern as a regular expression).
 
+-P::
 --perl-regexp::
 	Consider the limiting patterns to be Perl-compatible regular
 	expressions.