Re: [PATCH] gitk: add support for -G'regex' pickaxe variant

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:

My experience is the opposite.  I wonder "What did the author of this
nonsense comment mean?" or "What is the purpose of this strange
condition in this if () statement?".  Then "git log -S" finds the
culprit

Only if that if () statement looks that way from a single commit.
That's my point. If the line code bit you are looking at is the result
of several changes, your log -S will grind a while and find you
nothing.

cheers,



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