From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 21:38:22 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: add support for -G'regex' pickaxe variant Message-ID: <20130513213822.GH3657@google.com> In-Reply-To: Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > I still don't know exactly what -G and -S do. If you've been following recent gitk development (or this thread) closely, you'll know that "git log -S" finds commits adding/removing a string, while "git log -G" finds commits changing lines matching a regex. Examples for inclusion in the documentation welcome, certainly (especially if they come in patch form). A quick web search finds some references: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/187364 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/154822/focus=154823 http://gitster.livejournal.com/35628.html http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.scala.internals/14219/focus=14220 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1370389/focus=1370478 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.general/10682/focus=5691 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.nagios.plugins.devel/6164/focus=6175 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.sympy/5830/focus=5836 Thanks and hope that helps, Jonathan