Re: git log -S doesn't find some commits

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Bernt Hansen wrote:

quoted

Commits B, C, and D are not included in the git log -S output even
though with gitk you can see that 'org-publish-validate-link' is in the
patch.

It is not sufficient for it to be in the patch, it has to be added or 
deleted in whole.  So for example if you had a line

	org-publish-validate-link Hello

and you changed it to

	org-publish-validate-link World

git log -SWorld will find the commit, but git log 
-Sorg-publish-validate-link will not.

Ah I wasn't aware of that.

In this case the function 'org-publish-validate-link' was commented out,
and then in a later commit the comments were removed.

I was expecting these commits to be found by git log -S.

Thanks!

Bernt