From: Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 03:55:17 GMT
Subject: Re: Does Git now have any C struct version history tracking mechanism?
Message-ID: <CAEY4ZpM6U38piim_uY5KgaZX=1KkYF4WaMxR9HeywAp4AO9igw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87y57y84a1.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net>

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Hmm, IIUC that's actually not a bug or even a roughness; it's an
> artifact of how the :pattern:file syntax is defined.  It takes the first
> _funcname line_ matching 'pattern', up to (but excluding) the next
> funcname line.
>
...
> Or is there an issue that I'm missing?

No you're correct. I should have used the following instead for the demo:

    $ git log -L /struct\ rev_cmdline_info/,/^}/:revision.h

Moral: You'd hit your target better if you work on your aim.

nazri