Re: bug: `git log --grep ... --invert-grep --author=...` negates / ignores --author

[Anthony Sottile <asottile@umich.edu>]

I actually only expected the --grep to be inverted -- I think I'm on
the same page with what's documented.

I'd be happy to dig into the code and investigate this some more but I
am not familiar with the git codebase, any code hints on where to get
bootstrapped?

Anthony

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 11:40 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 08:08:54PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>>
>>> $ git log --grep=bar --author=Ævar --pretty=format:%an -100 origin/pu
>>> |sort|uniq -c|sort -nr
>>> 5 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
>>>
>>> $ git log --author=Ævar --pretty=format:%an -100 origin/pu |sort|uniq
>>> -c|sort -nr
>>> 100 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
>>>
>>> $ git log --grep=bar --invert-grep --author=Ævar --pretty=format:%an
>>> -100 origin/pu |sort|uniq -c|sort -nr
>>>      78 Junio C Hamano
>>>      14 Jeff King
>>>       2 Andreas Heiduk
>>>       1 Sahil Dua
>>>       1 Rikard Falkeborn
>>>       1 Johannes Sixt
>>>       1 Johannes Schindelin
>>>       1 Ben Peart
>>>       1 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
>>>
>>> That last command should only find my commits, but instead --author is
>>> discarded.
>>
>> I would have thought that the last command wouldn't find _any_ of your
>> commits. Don't we consider --author a greppable pattern and invert it?
>
> There's two unrelated things going on here AFAICT:
>
> * Anthony expected --author to be inverted by --invert-grep, but this
> is not how it's documented, it's *only* for inverting the --grep
> pattern: "Limit the commits output to ones with log message that do
> not match the pattern specified with --grep=<pattern>."
>
> * The --author filter should be applied un-inverted, but isn't, it's
> seemingly just ignored in the presence of --grep, actually mostly
> ignored, this is bizarre:
>
> $ diff -ru <(git log --grep=bar --invert-grep --pretty=format:%an -100
> origin/pu |sort|uniq -c|sort -nr) <(git log --grep=bar --invert-grep
> --pretty=format:%an -100 --author=WeMostlyIgnoreThisButNotReally
> origin/pu |sort|uniq -c|sort -nr)
> --- /dev/fd/63  2017-06-01 21:44:08.952583804 +0200
> +++ /dev/fd/62  2017-06-01 21:44:08.952583804 +0200
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
> -     66 Junio C Hamano
> +     65 Junio C Hamano
>       10 Jeff King
> -      8 Stefan Beller
> +      9 Stefan Beller
>        5 Lars Schneider
>        2 SZEDER Gábor
>        1 Tyler Brazier
>
>
>> By itself:
>>
>>   $ git log --author=Ævar --invert-grep --format=%an -100 origin/pu |
>>     sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
>>        79 Junio C Hamano
>>         8 Stefan Beller
>>         8 Jeff King
>>         1 Sahil Dua
>>         1 Rikard Falkeborn
>>         1 Johannes Sixt
>>         1 Johannes Schindelin
>>         1 Andreas Heiduk
>>
>> So that makes sense from the "--author is invertable" world-view.
>>
>> But I'm puzzled that you show up at all when --grep=bar is added (and
>> moreover, that we get _one_ commit from you, not the 5 found in your
>> initial command). That seems like a bug.
>
> I think that's the only thing that's not a bug, i.e. we just find 1
> match in the first 100 (note -100), sorry for the confusing example.
>
> Anyway, much of the above may be incorrect, I haven't dug deeply
> beyond just finding that something's funny going on and we definitely
> have *some* bugs here.