bug: `git log --grep ... --invert-grep --author=...` negates / ignores --author
From: Anthony Sottile <hidden>
Date: 2017-05-31 15:45:38
Given the following commits:
asottile@asottile-VirtualBox:/tmp$ git init test
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/test/.git/
asottile@asottile-VirtualBox:/tmp$ cd test/
asottile@asottile-VirtualBox:/tmp/test$
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=foo@example.com GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=foo@example.com
git commit --allow-empty -m "foo"
[master (root-commit) c9df62b] foo
asottile@asottile-VirtualBox:/tmp/test$ git commit -m "blah" --allow-empty
[master 9e3ee9b] blah
asottile@asottile-VirtualBox:/tmp/test$ git log
commit 9e3ee9bc1adab2ae8eb1884a8f6237da18dfd27b
Author: Anthony Sottile <asottile@umich.edu>
Date: Wed May 31 08:40:59 2017 -0700
blah
commit c9df62b93298a247fcfbe24ed4282ccf95448f47
Author: Anthony Sottile <foo@example.com>
Date: Wed May 31 08:40:49 2017 -0700
foo
asottile@asottile-VirtualBox:/tmp/test$ git log --grep bar
--invert-grep --author=foo
commit 9e3ee9bc1adab2ae8eb1884a8f6237da18dfd27b
Author: Anthony Sottile <asottile@umich.edu>
Date: Wed May 31 08:40:59 2017 -0700
blah
commit c9df62b93298a247fcfbe24ed4282ccf95448f47
Author: Anthony Sottile <foo@example.com>
Date: Wed May 31 08:40:49 2017 -0700
foo
asottile@asottile-VirtualBox:/tmp/test$ git log --author=foocommit
c9df62b93298a247fcfbe24ed4282ccf95448f47
Author: Anthony Sottile <foo@example.com>
Date: Wed May 31 08:40:49 2017 -0700
foo
I expect the same output from the last two commands, but the `--invert-grep` one seems to match _all_ the commits. I can try and dig into this if I have time, just trying to get a count using this as a workaround git log --grep ... --invert-grep --format=%ce | grep ... | wc -l Anthony