From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 17:04:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug report: --invert-grep and --author seems to be incompatible.
Message-ID: <xmqqtwft1nbi.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAFgjPJ-E0k8KQjdcRki4Qr1tPjwfJVtuFWOKYV-+f6POgb-=wg@mail.gmail.com>

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.