From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, j.sixt@eudaptics.com
Subject: Re: git log -S problem
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 07:27:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705210727.23898.johannes.sixt@telecom.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vy7jjjjdm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
On Sunday 20 May 2007 23:05, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> writes:
> > I had expected that the set of commits found by the second search string
> > are a proper superset of those found by the first one. What's wrong here?
> > Why does a search for 'merge-base' not find occurences of
> > 'builtin-merge-base'?
>
> 71dfbf224 removes one line that has "git-merge-base$X" and adds
> one line that has "builtin-merge-base.o". If you count the
> number of occurences of substring "builtin-merge-base" in the
> preimage and the postimage, you see one addition. If you count
> the same for substring "merge-base", the net difference is 0.
But is this how -S is *designed* to work?
Hm, the documentation says (diff-options.txt):
-S<string>::
Look for differences that contain the change in <string>.
which can be interpreted both to match my expectations as well as the current
implementation.
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-21 5:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-20 19:15 git log -S problem Johannes Sixt
2007-05-20 21:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-21 5:27 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2007-05-21 7:34 ` Junio C Hamano
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