Re: git log filtering

From: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: Feb 7, 2007, 17:01 UTC
Message-ID: <20070207170122.GB18704@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <68948ca0702070841m76817d9el7ce2ec69835c50e@mail.gmail.com>

Don Zickus wrote:

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> I was curious to know what is the easiest way to filter info inside a
> commit message.
> 
> For example say I wanted to find out what patches Joe User has
> submitted to the git project.
> I know I can do something like ' git log |grep -B2 "^Author: Joe User"

What about

	git log --author="Joe User"

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> ' and it will output the matches and the commit id.  However, if I
> wanted to filter on something like "Signed-off-by: Joe User", then it
> is a little harder to dig for the commit id.
> 
> Is there a better way of doing this?  Or should I accept the fact that
> git wasn't designed to filter info like this very quickly?
> 
> I guess what I was looking to do was embed some metadata inside the
> commit message and parse through it at a later time (ie like a
> bugzilla number or something).
> 
> Any thoughts/tips/tricks would be helpful.

Maybe:

	git log | awk -v sob="Joe User" '$1 == "commit" {commit = $2} /Signed-off-by:/ {if (match($0, sob)) print commit}'

Best regards Uwe

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