Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.10-rc0

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Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:

Thanks to all other points.

>>  * "git log -G" learned to pay attention to the "-i" option and can
>>    find patch hunks that introduce or remove a string that matches the
>>    given pattern ignoring the case.
>
> This didn't parse well for me. Also, it affects -S, too, doesn't it?
> Maybe:
>
>   * "git log -G" and "git log -S" learned to pay attention to the "-i"
>     option. When "-i" is given, their patterns will match
>     case-insensitively.

I was torn about this item, and indeed my earlier draft read like
yours but I removed "-S" as it felt it was more confusing than it
was worth.  The thing is that -S does not take any pattern --- it is
meant to be given a (typically a multi-line) block of text to find
where the exact block cease to exist in the file.
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