wchevreuil edited a comment on pull request #2555: URL: https://github.com/apache/hbase/pull/2555#issuecomment-712107523
> @wchevreuil I believe the nature of prefix doesn't break the backward compatibility. If some one wants exact match just pass the full key in this option as prefix. It's not the same, if I have a dataset where rowkeys can be 'a', 'aa', 'aaa' and so on, but I want to find only the edits for rowkey 'a', the `startsWith` will give me more than I want. I would rather have both options. Or if the goal is to save on the number of options, then `-w` could expect a regex, maybe? ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
