From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:16:01 GMT
Subject: Re: gitk "find commit adding/removing string"/possible pickaxe bug?
Message-ID: <201101182216.01772.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <201101182139.28808.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast wrote:
> So indeed
> 
>   git log -Squux -c -p
> 
> gives a combined diff.  But OTOH
> 
>   git log -Sbar -c -p
> 
> doesn't; it only gives a diff for the commit that introduced 'bar'.

It's actually even stranger.  -S does not seem to filter merges at
all.  For example, in git.git

  $ git log | grep -c ^Merge
  4677
  $ git log -Sthis_string_never_existed_anywhere -c | grep -c ^Merge
  4677

I think it should just filter all history, shouldn't it?  After all

  $ git log -- this_file_never_existed

also comes up empty.

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