From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:34:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] ? - git log :/text results are strange
Message-ID: <201002192334.52495.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <76c5b8581002191350h61d6d8c2jd0245c0963fcc85f@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday 19 February 2010 22:50:39 Eugene Sajine wrote:
> When I’m executing
> $ git log :/fix
> 
> I expect to see commits with messages starting from word “fix” only

You're not putting the puzzle together in the right way.  The chain
goes roughly like this:

* git-log wants to know what its arguments resolve to

  * (the internal equivalent of) git-rev-parse works out that :/fix is
    a525d2a, as it (apparently) is the youngest commit with a message
    starting with 'fix' (see man git-rev-parse)

* git-log feeds a525d2a to the revision walker

  * the revision walker starts outputting commits backwards through
    history, starting from a525d2a

and unsurprisingly, the log you pasted is just 'git log a525d2a'.

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch