Re: git-diff: --ignore-matching-lines has no effect on the output when --name-only is used

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Jul 24, 2025, 02:16 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cR7M1VL=9PQ1+xsj58=EPi0jR8oTdTnkGmMAD4gXeOnKw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <23DF2497-D379-4EAD-9271-D01D7D8F3E8B@gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM Lidong Yan <yldhome2d2@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> write:
> > Lidong Yan <yldhome2d2@gmail.com> writes:
> >> The `—ignore-matching-lines` options is introduced in 296d4a94e72
> >> (Michał Kępień 2020-10-20 08:48:09 +0200 5803) Since the Git documentation
> >
> > WTH is that reference format?
>
> Sorry. I should use `git log --format="%h (%s, %ad)" --date=short -n 1 296d4a`.

Simpler: git log --format=reference -n1 296d4a

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