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Re: git log --grep missing entries?

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LWLea Wiemann <lewiemann@gmail.com>
Date
May 27, 2008, 20:36 UTC
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Chris Frey wrote:
> 	# nothing appears for these commands
> 	git log --grep="thadh@thad.corp.google.com"
> 	# this works
> 	git log --author="thadh@thad.corp.google.com"

According to the man page of git-log, --grep only greps the log message, not the author. Does that help?

-- Lea
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