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To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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>>>>> "KS" == Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> writes:

KS> Nice, thanks. Here is a very first try. It searches the commit messages
KS> and uses pickaxe to search in the file content:
KS>   http://ehlo.org/~kay/gitweb.cgi?p=git/git.git;a=search;s=symlink

Nice, thanks for using pickaxe ;-).  One request, knowing well
that what you have on ehlo is your first cut.

The pickaxe really shines when you can paste a couple of lines
of code in the version you are having trouble with (or just you
are curious about) in order to see where they came from.  For
example, I did an equivalent of the following command back to
figure out which patch and author to give credit to when I stole
the tagged output format for git-ls-files from Cogito branch:

git-rev-list pasky |
git-diff-tree -v -p --stdin \
-S'static const char *tag_cached = "";
static const char *tag_unmerged = "";
static const char *tag_removed = "";'

Since this is primarily about program code, forbidding '*' is
rather nasty, and not being able to do multiple lines makes it
quite less useful than it could be.