From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 20:40:32 GMT
Subject: Re: git log --grep missing entries?
Message-ID: <20080527204032.GA26161@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <20080527202842.GA32252@foursquare.net>

On 2008.05.27 16:28:42 -0400, Chris Frey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I ran into this the other day when I was looking at jgit's log history.
> I retested today with the latest master branch, and it does the same thing.
> 
> So... what am I doing wrong?
> 
> 	git clone git://repo.or.cz/egit/spearce.git bsd
> 	git log |grep "^Author:" | sort | uniq
> 
> 	# note the user: Thad Hughes <thadh@thad.corp.google.com>
> 
> 	# nothing appears for these commands
> 	git log --grep="thadh@thad.corp.google.com"
> 	git log --grep="google.com"
> 	git log --grep="thadh"
> 
> 	# this works
> 	git log --author="thadh@thad.corp.google.com"
> 
> 	# this works
> 	git log | grep thadh@thad.corp.google.com

--grep only works on the log message, not on the author or committer
fields. As Thad's commit does not have a SoB line, --grep won't find it.

Björn