Re: git log: invert --author and --committer

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Per Cederqvist [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

    git log --invert-grep --author cibot

...
Yeah, the author/committer search piggy-backs the more generic "grep
in the log" machinery, but it is quite hidden and the document
failed to tell the end users that is what is going on.  Mentioning
that invert (or any tweak that works on the grep machinery) affects
author/committer search is a good idea.

Does "-i/--regexp-ignore-case" also need the same treatment?

It seems it does.

How about making this clarification not about --invert-grep but
about --committer/--author option, perhaps like this?

 Documentation/rev-list-options.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index 4f009d4..3fca366 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt

@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ endif::git-rev-list[]
 	expression).  With more than one `--author=<pattern>`,
 	commits whose author matches any of the given patterns are
 	chosen (similarly for multiple `--committer=<pattern>`).
++
+Options that affect how a regular expression match is performed
+(such as `-i`, `-E`, `--invert-grep`) can also be used affect these
+options.
 
 --grep-reflog=<pattern>::
 	Limit the commits output to ones with reflog entries that