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From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: BUG? git log -Sfoo --max-count=N
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:37:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbbgvske.fsf@wanadoo.es> (raw)

The documentation says

--max-count=<number> 
  Limit the number of commits output

but when used with -S as in

git log -Sfoo --max-count=N

it acts as "inspect only the N first commits", i.e. if `foo' is not
present on any of the first N commits no output is shown.

Using other filtering options (such as `--grep=' or `-- somepath')
together with --max-count=N will output at most N commits regardless of
the position on the history of those commits, as expected.

Tested with git 1.7.1 and 1.7.4.

             reply	other threads:[~2011-03-06 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-06 21:37 Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2011-03-07 12:46 ` [RFC/PATCH] Re: BUG? git log -Sfoo --max-count=N Matthieu Moy
2011-03-08 19:22   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-09 20:52     ` [PATCH] log: fix --max-count when used together with -S or -G Matthieu Moy
2011-03-09 21:38       ` Jeff King
2011-03-09 21:49         ` Matthieu Moy
2011-03-09 22:27         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-10 22:39           ` Jeff King

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