From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 07:31:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: add support for -G'regex' pickaxe variant
Message-ID: <7vipezaaig.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120610072431.GA20320@bloggs.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> writes:

> What exactly does git log -G do?

Unlike

    git log -S'this
    and
    that
    line'

which finds commits that changes the number of occurrences of the
given lines in the blob (typically 1 to 0 or 0 to 1),

    git log -G'frotz'

internally runs "git log -U0", and finds commits that adds or
removes a line that matches the given pattern 'frotz'.