From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git log -S or -G
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 18:22:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACBZZX6PmG=-8563eYE4z98yvHePenZf_Kz1xgpse0ngjB5QyA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1810061712260.2402@hadrien>
On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 5:16 PM Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> wrote:
> Git log -S or -G make it possible to find commits that have particular
> words in the changed lines. Sometimes it would be helpful to search for
> words in the removed lines or in the added lines specifically. From the
> implementation, I had the impression that this would be easy to implement.
> The main question would be how to allow the user to specify what is
> wanted.
As far as I know this isn't possible. The --diff-filter option is
similar in spirit, but e.g. adding "foo" and then removing it from an
existing file will both be covered under --diff-filter=M, so that
isn't what you're looking for.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-06 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-06 15:14 git log -S or -G Julia Lawall
2018-10-06 16:22 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2018-10-07 0:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-07 5:21 ` Julia Lawall
2018-10-08 23:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-09 3:21 ` Jeff King
2018-10-09 3:58 ` Jacob Keller
2018-10-09 6:39 ` Julia Lawall
2018-10-09 5:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-09 12:45 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-09 13:51 ` Julia Lawall
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