From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:59:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Patterns work unexpectedly with "git log" commit limiting
Message-ID: <20080717085903.GR32184@machine.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20080717074706.GA5392@mithlond.arda.local>

  Hi,

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:47:06AM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote:
>  3. What is the supposed behaviour of -F (--fixed-strings) when combined
>     with --author= ?
> 
> 	--author=pattern -F
> 
>     doesn't seem to match anything. I also tried putting the entire raw
>     author field (i.e. including the raw date) but no match. With -F
>     before the --author= it behaves like no -F at all.
> 
>     "--grep=fixedstring -F" seems to work, though.

  this is actually very high on my TODO list, since it makes
author/committer search in gitweb disfunctional. I plan to post a patch
fixing this in a few days, unless someone beats me to it as usual. ;-)

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis