Re: [PATCH] diff --check: use colour

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Jan 26, 2007, 11:10 UTC
Message-ID: <45B9E1A2.40505@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <17849.17947.645022.282882@lisa.zopyra.com>

Bill Lear wrote:

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> On Friday, January 26, 2007 at 00:41:42 (+0100) Johannes Schindelin writes:
>> ...
>> The easiest way to find out what it does is to execute:
>>
>> 	git log -S--check diff.c
> 
> Hmm, using 1.5.0-rc2, I created a test repo, and did this:
> 
> echo foo > foo
> git add foo
> git commit -a -m foo
> echo bar > foo
> git commit -a -m bar
> git log -S--check foo
> 
> and nothing happened.
> 
> I did
> 
> git log -S --check foo
> 
> and the thing went off into outer space.  Now at over 2 1/2 minutes of
> CPU time on my 2 Ghz Opteron box...
> 
> Is it really '-S--check'?
>

Yes. '-S--check' will start a pickaxe search for the string '--check' in the repository, covering all the history and the likes. It can take quite a long time (even if used properly ;-)), but it's certainly better than having to look manually.

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