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Subject: Re: git log --grep missing entries?
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On 2008.05.27 16:28:42 -0400, Chris Frey wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I ran into this the other day when I was looking at jgit's log histor=
y.
> I retested today with the latest master branch, and it does the same =
thing.
>=20
> So... what am I doing wrong?
>=20
> 	git clone git://repo.or.cz/egit/spearce.git bsd
> 	git log |grep "^Author:" | sort | uniq
>=20
> 	# note the user: Thad Hughes <thadh@thad.corp.google.com>
>=20
> 	# nothing appears for these commands
> 	git log --grep=3D"thadh@thad.corp.google.com"
> 	git log --grep=3D"google.com"
> 	git log --grep=3D"thadh"
>=20
> 	# this works
> 	git log --author=3D"thadh@thad.corp.google.com"
>=20
> 	# this works
> 	git log | grep thadh@thad.corp.google.com

--grep only works on the log message, not on the author or committer
fields. As Thad's commit does not have a SoB line, --grep won't find it=
=2E

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