From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 19:42:24 GMT
Subject: Re: Git bug: Filter ignored when "--invert-grep" option is used.
Message-ID: <xmqqee6cbalb.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CAKDXFkOXNPTjQRvj7sy54YhH1QGFUsEXYeLKCShJP7_xueRseQ@mail.gmail.com>

Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> writes:

>> I think --author and --grep uses the same internal pattern matching
>> engine, so with --invert-grep, I would not be surprised if the
>> command looks for commits that do not have Revert and (or is that
>> or?  I dunno) not authored by Shachar.
>
> Possibly, but the flag is called --invert-grep not --invert-matches so
> one would expect it to revert grep only.

That is an actionable improvement idea to introduce a synonym ;-)

But in general, the way the internal "git grep" machinery is exposed
to the commands in the "git log" family is very limited.  With "git
grep", it is quite straight-forward to say "report hits for lines
that has this but not that"

    $ git grep -e this --and --not -e that

but because that the commands in the "log" family already use
"--not" for a quite different purpose, "git log --grep" cannot even
express something similar, even to find hits on a single line, let
alone finding hits on two different lines (i.e. one on the "author"
header, the other in the message part, of the commit object).