Re: git log -S doesn't search stash WIPs

["Jonathan del Strother" <maillist@steelskies.com>]

On Feb 8, 2008 12:18 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Jonathan del Strother wrote:
>
> > "git log --all -Sfoo" doesn't find strings introduced in stash WIP
> > commits, only the stash index.
>
> It is a little unfortunate that a stash will do this:
>
> HEAD ------- stash
>     \       /
>       index
>
> In other words, the index will be "committed" as a regular commit, but the
> working directory will actually be a "merge commit".
>
> So you need to add "--cc" to see the commit.
>
> Further, the stash is not just a branch.  The stash is actually a stack of
> reflogs.  So could you try again, with
>
>         $ git log --cc -Sfoo --walk-reflogs stash


Hmmm, I'm a little fuzzy on why --cc helps, though it looks like
either or both of --cc and --walk-reflogs will do the trick.
Thanks for the help
Jon