Re: [PATCH] gitk: add support for -G'regex' pickaxe variant

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Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Martin Langhoff wrote:
>> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> My experience is the opposite.  I wonder "What did the author of this
>>> nonsense comment mean?" or "What is the purpose of this strange
>>> condition in this if () statement?".  Then "git log -S" finds the
>>> culprit
>>
>> Only if that if () statement looks that way from a single commit.
>> That's my point. If the line code bit you are looking at is the result
>> of several changes, your log -S will grind a while and find you
>> nothing.
>
> Well, no, it should find the final change that brought it into the
> current form.  Just like "git blame".

I still don't know exactly what -G and -S do.  The documentation can
be improved, no?  A nice example would definitely help.

Thanks.
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