Re: git log -S not finding all commits?

From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Oct 9, 2009, 14:07 UTC
Message-ID: <864oq8r795.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpq1vldx7xx.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

>>>>> "Matthieu" == Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

Matthieu> merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

>>>>>>> "Matthieu" == Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
>>

Matthieu> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

Show 5 quoted lines

>>>> git log -p --format="%s\n%x00"  | perl -0 -ne 'print if(/whatever-you-search/);'
>> 
>> That "if" is noisier than it needs to be:
>> 
>> perl -0 -ne 'print if /this/'

Matthieu> Also, this seems to actually print the \0 character. Perhaps a perl Matthieu> guru can give a simple solution to replace the \0 by a \n?

Just a matter of one more switch.  Sorry for forgetting it earlier.

  .. | perl -ln0e 'print if /this/'

print "Just another Perl hacker,"; # the original

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