From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Per Cederqvist <cederp@opera.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git log: invert --author and --committer
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 14:26:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1t4s8nzr.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP=KgsSNgKY5gR3uSSMZdOxZ1687YRnQRQFsV22UwCXqmdfB9g@mail.gmail.com> (Per Cederqvist's message of "Mon, 23 May 2016 23:21:32 +0200")
Per Cederqvist <cederp@opera.com> writes:
> "can also be used to affect", right? (I think the word "to" is missing.)
Correct.
> That wording would however make me assume that --all-match could also
> be used, so that
>
> git log --all-match --author ceder --author cibot
>
> would list nothing (since there are no authors that match both
> "ceder" and "cibot" in this codebase). That isn't the fact, though.
That is because "--all-match" does not affect "how a regular
expression match is performed". The option affects the way how the
results from these multiple regular expression matches are combined.
> It seems to list all commits that have either ceder or cibot as author,
> just as if I had not used --all-match.
>
> As a reader of the man-page, I would prefer to have the exact list
> of options in the documentation. (I realize that it will make it harder
> to maintain.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-23 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-23 9:54 git log: invert --author and --committer Per Cederqvist
2016-05-23 17:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-23 19:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-23 21:21 ` Per Cederqvist
2016-05-23 21:26 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-05-23 21:47 ` Junio C Hamano
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