On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 06:06:51PM -0600, Bill Lear wrote: > >The easiest way to find out what it does is to execute: > > git log -S--check diff.c > > Hmm, using 1.5.0-rc2, I created a test repo, and did this: I think you misunderstood Johannes. The -S option is used to find revisions that include the given string in their changes. So he was suggesting running that command in the _git_ repository, to show you the commit that introduced the --check option (from which you would get some material for writing the docs...) > echo foo > foo > git add foo > git commit -a -m foo > echo bar > foo > git commit -a -m bar > git log -S--check foo > > and nothing happened. Right. You never put the word --check into your repository content. :) > git log -S --check foo > > and the thing went off into outer space. Now at over 2 1/2 minutes of > CPU time on my 2 Ghz Opteron box... This appears to be a bug. I will look into it. -Peff - 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