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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git log -S doesn't find some commits
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:25:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bpwvrpbk.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0811050014310.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Wed\, 5 Nov 2008 00\:15\:44 +0100 \(CET\)")

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Bernt Hansen wrote:
>
>> Commits B, C, and D are not included in the git log -S output even
>> though with gitk you can see that 'org-publish-validate-link' is in the
>> patch.
>
> It is not sufficient for it to be in the patch, it has to be added or 
> deleted in whole.  So for example if you had a line
>
> 	org-publish-validate-link Hello
>
> and you changed it to
>
> 	org-publish-validate-link World
>
> git log -SWorld will find the commit, but git log 
> -Sorg-publish-validate-link will not.

Ah I wasn't aware of that.

In this case the function 'org-publish-validate-link' was commented out,
and then in a later commit the comments were removed.

I was expecting these commits to be found by git log -S.

Thanks!

Bernt

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-05  0:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-04 22:59 git log -S doesn't find some commits Bernt Hansen
2008-11-04 23:06 ` Pieter de Bie
2008-11-04 23:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-04 23:45   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-05  0:29     ` Bernt Hansen
2008-11-05  1:30       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-05  0:25   ` Bernt Hansen [this message]

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