From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:42:48 GMT Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.10-rc0 Message-ID: <7vlinbfv9z.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20120308063054.GD7643@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: Thanks to all other points. >> * "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.