From: Martin Langhoff Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 19:19:09 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: add support for -G'regex' pickaxe variant Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20130513185551.GB3657@google.com> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > My experience is the opposite. I wonder "What did the author of this > nonsense comment mean?" or "What is the purpose of this strange > condition in this if () statement?". Then "git log -S" finds the > culprit Only if that if () statement looks that way from a single commit. That's my point. If the line code bit you are looking at is the result of several changes, your log -S will grind a while and find you nothing. cheers, m -- martin@laptop.org - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff