From: Martin Langhoff Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:43:14 GMT Subject: Getting pickaxe to perform looser matches, or regex matching Message-ID: I am a regular user of gitk's nice pickaxe search field. But it will often fail to find what I am looking for because the part of the string I can provide is not the part that changes. For example, I am looking for patches that change any calls to function foo(). I want to match on - foo(1, 0, 1024) + foo(0, 1024, 1) but I don't know the parameters. As the "pickaxe" sections in gitdiffcore and git log manpages indicate, it won't match on -S'foo' because foo itself was not added or removed. A regex like "foo(.*" would work, but pickaxe doesn't seem to take regexes, and while I could roll my own wrapper around git-log --patch, this sounds like an important and useful variant to pickaxe that is missing. Or that has a hidden switch I haven't found ;-) m --  martin.langhoff@gmail.com  martin@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC  - ask interesting questions  - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first  - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff