Re: git log -S problem

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

On Sunday 20 May 2007 23:05, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

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I had expected that the set of commits found by the second search string
are a proper superset of those found by the first one. What's wrong here?
Why does a search for 'merge-base' not find occurences of
'builtin-merge-base'?

71dfbf224 removes one line that has "git-merge-base$X" and adds
one line that has "builtin-merge-base.o".  If you count the
number of occurences of substring "builtin-merge-base" in the
preimage and the postimage, you see one addition.  If you count
the same for substring "merge-base", the net difference is 0.

But is this how -S is *designed* to work? 

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/14869/focus=14871

For the design background, 

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/6214