Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am a regular user of gitk's nice pickaxe search field. But it will often > fail to find what I am looking for because the part of the string I can > provide is not the part that changes. > > For example, I am looking for patches that change any calls to function > foo(). I want to match on > > - foo(1, 0, 1024) > + foo(0, 1024, 1) > > but I don't know the parameters. As the "pickaxe" sections in gitdiffcore > and git log manpages indicate, it won't match on -S'foo' because foo itself > was not added or removed. > > A regex like "foo(.*" would work, but pickaxe doesn't seem to take > regexes, and while I could roll my own wrapper around git-log --patch, > this sounds like an important and useful variant to pickaxe that is > missing. > > Or that has a hidden switch I haven't found ;-) Like more expensive -G that was recently added? -- 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