Re: git log filtering

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 7, 2007, 16:55 UTC
Message-ID: <eqd09b$4hg$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <68948ca0702070841m76817d9el7ce2ec69835c50e@mail.gmail.com>

[Cc: git@vger.kernel.org]

Don Zickus wrote:

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> I was curious to know what is the easiest way to filter info inside a
> commit message.
> 
> For example say I wanted to find out what patches Joe User has
> submitted to the git project.
>
> I know I can do something like ' git log |grep -B2 "^Author: Joe User"
> ' and it will output the matches and the commit id.  However, if I
> wanted to filter on something like "Signed-off-by: Joe User", then it
> is a little harder to dig for the commit id.
> 
> Is there a better way of doing this?  Or should I accept the fact that
> git wasn't designed to filter info like this very quickly?

You can use "git log --grep=<pattern>" for that, instead. This greps raw commit message. You can use --author and --comitter to grep those headers.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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