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

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Eric Raible[off-list ref] wrote:

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

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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):

Sorry to self-reply, but one obvious workaround is to encode the NULL
explicitly:

git log -z -p --format='%x00GREP: %s' | ...