Re: RFH - git-log variant that _does_ search through diffs

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Jeff King[off-list ref] wrote:

I think you can do this a little more simply and efficiently as:

 git log -z -p --format='GREP: %s' |
   perl -0ne 'print if /^[-+].*foo/m && !/^GREP:.*dont_want/' |
   tr '\0' '\n'

(though note that --format is new as of 1.6.3, I think; before that you
have to use "--pretty=format:"). Many fewer process invocations, and
less typing, though still easy to mess up.

I agree that --format leads to a much prettier solution.
Unfortunately --format seems to turn off -z (at least in msysgit):

$ git --version
git version 1.6.3.2.1299.gee46c
$ git log -p > L1
$ git log -p -z > L2
$ diff L1 L2 | wc
   2415    4347   62889
$ git log -p --format=%s > L1
$ git log -p -z --format=%s > L2
$ diff L1 L2 | wc
      0       0       0