From: Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 05:07:43 GMT Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation/git-log: mention that line-log regex must match in starting revision Message-ID: <4ea4eeae0c1e23221012855168bf6640be93fd4f.1576559263.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: From: Philippe Blain When giving a regex as parameter or in `git log -L ,:`, or a function name in `git log -L ::`, the given regex must match in the starting revision, or else the command exits with a fatal error. This is not obvious in the documentation, so add a note to that effect. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain --- Documentation/git-log.txt | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt index 1c52bf184d..5c3fd39048 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-log.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt @@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ produced by `--stat`, etc. (or the function name regex ) within the . You may not give any pathspec limiters. This is currently limited to a walk starting from a single revision, i.e., you may only - give zero or one positive revision arguments. + give zero or one positive revision arguments, and any given regex for + or (or ) must match in the starting revision. You can specify this option more than once. Implies `--patch`. If ``:'' is given, implies `--function-context`. Patch output can be suppressed using `-s`, but other diff formats -- gitgitgadget