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From: Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] ? - git log :/text results are strange
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:41:32 -0500
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oh. I see, thanks!

I had to do

$git log --pretty=3Doneline | grep fix

to get what i wanted...

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wr=
ote:
> On Friday 19 February 2010 22:50:39 Eugene Sajine wrote:
>> When I=E2=80=99m executing
>> $ git log :/fix
>>
>> I expect to see commits with messages starting from word =E2=80=9Cfi=
x=E2=80=9D only
>
> You're not putting the puzzle together in the right way. =C2=A0The ch=
ain
> goes roughly like this:
>
> * git-log wants to know what its arguments resolve to
>
> =C2=A0* (the internal equivalent of) git-rev-parse works out that :/f=
ix is
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0a525d2a, as it (apparently) is the youngest commit with =
a message
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0starting with 'fix' (see man git-rev-parse)
>
> * git-log feeds a525d2a to the revision walker
>
> =C2=A0* the revision walker starts outputting commits backwards throu=
gh
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0history, starting from a525d2a
>
> and unsurprisingly, the log you pasted is just 'git log a525d2a'.
>
> --
> Thomas Rast
> trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
>