Re: RFH - git-log variant that _does_ search through diffs

[Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Eric Raible<raible@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Jeff King<peff@peff.net> wrote:
>>
>> I think you can do this a little more simply and efficiently as:
>>
>>  git log -z -p --format='GREP: %s' |
>>    perl -0ne 'print if /^[-+].*foo/m && !/^GREP:.*dont_want/' |
>>    tr '\0' '\n'
>>
>> (though note that --format is new as of 1.6.3, I think; before that you
>> have to use "--pretty=format:"). Many fewer process invocations, and
>> less typing, though still easy to mess up.
>
> I agree that --format leads to a much prettier solution.
> Unfortunately --format seems to turn off -z (at least in msysgit):

Sorry to self-reply, but one obvious workaround is to encode the NULL
explicitly:

git log -z -p --format='%x00GREP: %s' | ...