Re: git log: invert --author and --committer

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 23, 2016, 21:26 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <CAP=KgsSNgKY5gR3uSSMZdOxZ1687YRnQRQFsV22UwCXqmdfB9g@mail.gmail.com>

Per Cederqvist <cederp@opera.com> writes:

> "can also be used to affect", right? (I think the word "to" is missing.)

Correct.

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> That wording would however make me assume that --all-match could also
> be used, so that
>
>     git log --all-match --author ceder --author cibot
>
> would list nothing (since there are no authors that match both
> "ceder" and "cibot" in this codebase).  That isn't the fact, though.

That is because "--all-match" does not affect "how a regular expression match is performed". The option affects the way how the results from these multiple regular expression matches are combined.

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> It seems to list all commits that have either ceder or cibot as author,
> just as if I had not used --all-match.
>
> As a reader of the man-page, I would prefer to have the exact list
> of options in the documentation.  (I realize that it will make it harder
> to maintain.)