From: Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] ? - git log :/text results are strange
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:41:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76c5b8581002191541x95c3378je6f0528c11aaba4f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201002192334.52495.trast@student.ethz.ch>
oh. I see, thanks!
I had to do
$git log --pretty=oneline | grep fix
to get what i wanted...
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
> On Friday 19 February 2010 22:50:39 Eugene Sajine wrote:
>> When I’m executing
>> $ git log :/fix
>>
>> I expect to see commits with messages starting from word “fix” only
>
> You're not putting the puzzle together in the right way. The chain
> goes roughly like this:
>
> * git-log wants to know what its arguments resolve to
>
> * (the internal equivalent of) git-rev-parse works out that :/fix is
> a525d2a, as it (apparently) is the youngest commit with a message
> starting with 'fix' (see man git-rev-parse)
>
> * git-log feeds a525d2a to the revision walker
>
> * the revision walker starts outputting commits backwards through
> history, starting from a525d2a
>
> and unsurprisingly, the log you pasted is just 'git log a525d2a'.
>
> --
> Thomas Rast
> trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-19 23:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-19 21:50 [BUG] ? - git log :/text results are strange Eugene Sajine
2010-02-19 22:34 ` Thomas Rast
2010-02-19 23:41 ` Eugene Sajine [this message]
2010-02-19 23:45 ` Thomas Rast
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