oh. I see, thanks! I had to do $git log --pretty=oneline | grep fix to get what i wanted... On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 19 February 2010 22:50:39 Eugene Sajine wrote: >> When I’m executing >> $ git log :/fix >> >> I expect to see commits with messages starting from word “fix” only > > You're not putting the puzzle together in the right way. The chain > goes roughly like this: > > * git-log wants to know what its arguments resolve to > > * (the internal equivalent of) git-rev-parse works out that :/fix is > a525d2a, as it (apparently) is the youngest commit with a message > starting with 'fix' (see man git-rev-parse) > > * git-log feeds a525d2a to the revision walker > > * the revision walker starts outputting commits backwards through > history, starting from a525d2a > > and unsurprisingly, the log you pasted is just 'git log a525d2a'. > > -- > Thomas Rast > trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html