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Re: Can't find the revelant commit with git-log

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FMFrancis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 29, 2011, 12:52 UTC
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René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:
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> Am 26.01.2011 19:11, schrieb René Scharfe:
>> - Make git grep report non-matching path specs (new feature).
>
> This is a bit complicated because grep can work on files, index entries
> as well as versioned objects and supports wildcards,
> so it's not that easy to tell if a path spec matches something or is a
> rather typo.  But it's not impossible either, of course.
I don't understand this for the following use case:
   $ cd ~/linux-2.6/drivers/pci/
   $ git grep blacklist v2.6.27 -- drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c

From what you said, it sounds that git grep is actually searching the string 'somewhere'. But where ?

Thanks
-- 
Francis
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