Re: Summary of core GIT while you are away.

> 
> The only thing I personally
> think sucks is the author/committer matching of git-rev-list/tree, since
> it would seem like somebody might well like to match on an arbitrary part
> of a commit, and special-casing author/committer seems somewhat broken. 

> I personally suspect that both git-rev-list and git-rev-tree should have
> an alternate output format that could be more easily grepped by subsequent
> commands. For example, right now git-rev-list just outputs a list of
> commit ID's, and it might make sense to have a flag to just append the
> commit message to the output, and zero-terminate it (and if the commit
> message has a NUL byte in it, just truncate it at that point).
> 
> Then you could just do
> 
> 	git-rev-list -v --header HEAD | grep -z 'author[^\n]*Linus'
> 
> to tell it to do the "verbose" thing (only showing the header of the 
> commit, not the whole message), and grep for "Linus" in the author line.