Re: git log -S not finding all commits?

From: Daniel <mjucde@o2.pl>
Date: Oct 8, 2009, 11:07 UTC
Message-ID: <362436ca.6b5d0fc3.4acdc7e1.41b23@o2.pl>
In-Reply-To: <4ACDACE6.9060509@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:

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> Yes, it's the correct behaviour. -S finds only lines where what you search
> for was added or deleted. It counts the number of occurrences of what you
> specify in each resulting tree and only shows the commits where that number
> changed. In your case, searching for "Free data " would have printed both
> commits, since you first introduce that entire string and then remove it.

Thanks. However, your suggestion doesn't work. It prints only commit 2. Maybe you meant:

$ PAGER=cat git log --pickaxe-regex -S'Free data$' --oneline

but that doesn't solve my problem. I want to find all commits which changed lines containing "Free data" (the example I posted is simplified).

Seems I have to use "git log -p" and search its output using pager...

-- 
Daniel