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Re: Bug report: --invert-grep and --author seems to be incompatible.

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 13, 2016, 17:04 UTC
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Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard@gmail.com> writes:
>> git log --author=someone --invert-grep --grep=something
>
> But it does not work. Actually it looks like it just returns
> everything (as though I had done a simple `git log`).

Do you see a commit that is by "someone" and has "something" in it in the output from the command?

I think --author=someone greps the "author " field in the commit object looking for the hit with "someone", and your request asks to show commits that either do not have "something" or was not written by "someone", I would guess.

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