From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 07:34:42 GMT
Subject: Re: git log -S problem
Message-ID: <7vmyzyfx4d.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200705210727.23898.johannes.sixt@telecom.at>

Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> writes:

> On Sunday 20 May 2007 23:05, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> writes:
>> > I had expected that the set of commits found by the second search string
>> > are a proper superset of those found by the first one. What's wrong here?
>> > Why does a search for 'merge-base' not find occurences of
>> > 'builtin-merge-base'?
>>
>> 71dfbf224 removes one line that has "git-merge-base$X" and adds
>> one line that has "builtin-merge-base.o".  If you count the
>> number of occurences of substring "builtin-merge-base" in the
>> preimage and the postimage, you see one addition.  If you count
>> the same for substring "merge-base", the net difference is 0.
>
> But is this how -S is *designed* to work? 

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/14869/focus=14871

For the design background, 

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/6214