Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.10-rc0

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 8, 2012, 06:42 UTC
Message-ID: <7vlinbfv9z.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120308063054.GD7643@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

Thanks to all other points.

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>>  * "git log -G" learned to pay attention to the "-i" option and can
>>    find patch hunks that introduce or remove a string that matches the
>>    given pattern ignoring the case.
>
> This didn't parse well for me. Also, it affects -S, too, doesn't it?
> Maybe:
>
>   * "git log -G" and "git log -S" learned to pay attention to the "-i"
>     option. When "-i" is given, their patterns will match
>     case-insensitively.

I was torn about this item, and indeed my earlier draft read like yours but I removed "-S" as it felt it was more confusing than it was worth. The thing is that -S does not take any pattern --- it is meant to be given a (typically a multi-line) block of text to find where the exact block cease to exist in the file.