Re: git log filtering

>  - "git log" can itself do a lot of filtering. Both on date, on revisions,
>    on "modifies files/directories X, Y and Z" _and_ on strings.
>
>    See "man git-rev-list" for more (it doesn't apply to just "git log", it
>    applies to just about any revision listing, including gitk etc)
>
>    For example,
>
>         git log [--author=pattern] [--committer=pattern] [--grep=pattern]
>
>    will likely do exactly what you want. You can do
>
>         git log --grep="Signed-off-by:.*akpm"
>
>    on the kernel archive to see which ones were signed off by Andrew.