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git log --grep missing entries?

Subject: git log --grep missing entries?

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4 messages between May 27, 2008 and May 27, 2008.

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Chris Frey· May 27, 2008, 20:28 UTC · lore

Hi,

I ran into this the other day when I was looking at jgit's log history. I retested today with the latest master branch, and it does the same thing.

So... what am I doing wrong?

	git clone git://repo.or.cz/egit/spearce.git bsd
	git log |grep "^Author:" | sort | uniq

	# note the user: Thad Hughes <thadh@thad.corp.google.com>

	# nothing appears for these commands
	git log --grep="thadh@thad.corp.google.com"
	git log --grep="google.com"
	git log --grep="thadh"

	# this works
	git log --author="thadh@thad.corp.google.com"

	# this works
	git log | grep thadh@thad.corp.google.com

- Chris

Lea Wiemann· May 27, 2008, 20:36 UTC · re: Chris Frey · lore

Re: git log --grep missing entries?

Chris Frey wrote:

> 	# nothing appears for these commands
> 	git log --grep="thadh@thad.corp.google.com"
> 	# this works
> 	git log --author="thadh@thad.corp.google.com"

According to the man page of git-log, --grep only greps the log message, not the author. Does that help?

-- Lea

Chris Frey· May 27, 2008, 20:48 UTC · re: Lea Wiemann · lore

Re: git log --grep missing entries?

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:36:51PM +0200, Lea Wiemann wrote:

> According to the man page of git-log, --grep only greps the log message, 
> not the author.  Does that help?

Doh.  That would certainly explain it.  Thanks!

- Chris

Björn Steinbrink· May 27, 2008, 20:40 UTC · re: Chris Frey · lore

Re: git log --grep missing entries?

On 2008.05.27 16:28:42 -0400, Chris Frey wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> I ran into this the other day when I was looking at jgit's log history.
> I retested today with the latest master branch, and it does the same thing.
> 
> So... what am I doing wrong?
> 
> 	git clone git://repo.or.cz/egit/spearce.git bsd
> 	git log |grep "^Author:" | sort | uniq
> 
> 	# note the user: Thad Hughes <thadh@thad.corp.google.com>
> 
> 	# nothing appears for these commands
> 	git log --grep="thadh@thad.corp.google.com"
> 	git log --grep="google.com"
> 	git log --grep="thadh"
> 
> 	# this works
> 	git log --author="thadh@thad.corp.google.com"
> 
> 	# this works
> 	git log | grep thadh@thad.corp.google.com

--grep only works on the log message, not on the author or committer fields. As Thad's commit does not have a SoB line, --grep won't find it.

Björn