Re: [BUG] ? - git log :/text results are strange
oh. I see, thanks!
I had to do
$git log --pretty=oneline | grep fix
to get what i wanted...
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
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> On Friday 19 February 2010 22:50:39 Eugene Sajine wrote:
>> When I’m executing
>> $ git log :/fix
>>
>> I expect to see commits with messages starting from word “fix” only
>
> You're not putting the puzzle together in the right way. The chain
> goes roughly like this:
>
> * git-log wants to know what its arguments resolve to
>
> * (the internal equivalent of) git-rev-parse works out that :/fix is
> a525d2a, as it (apparently) is the youngest commit with a message
> starting with 'fix' (see man git-rev-parse)
>
> * git-log feeds a525d2a to the revision walker
>
> * the revision walker starts outputting commits backwards through
> history, starting from a525d2a
>
> and unsurprisingly, the log you pasted is just 'git log a525d2a'.
>
> --
> Thomas Rast
> trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
>