Re: [BUG] ? - git log :/text results are strange

oh. I see, thanks!

I had to do

$git log --pretty=oneline | grep fix

to get what i wanted...

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Thomas Rast [off-list ref] wrote:

On Friday 19 February 2010 22:50:39 Eugene Sajine wrote:

quoted

When I’m executing
$ git log :/fix

I expect to see commits with messages starting from word “fix” only

You're not putting the puzzle together in the right way.  The chain
goes roughly like this:

* git-log wants to know what its arguments resolve to

 * (the internal equivalent of) git-rev-parse works out that :/fix is
   a525d2a, as it (apparently) is the youngest commit with a message
   starting with 'fix' (see man git-rev-parse)

* git-log feeds a525d2a to the revision walker

 * the revision walker starts outputting commits backwards through
   history, starting from a525d2a

and unsurprisingly, the log you pasted is just 'git log a525d2a'.

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Thomas Rast
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