Don Zickus wrote:
> I was curious to know what is the easiest way to filter info inside a
> commit message.
>
> For example say I wanted to find out what patches Joe User has
> submitted to the git project.
> I know I can do something like ' git log |grep -B2 "^Author: Joe User"
What about
git log --author="Joe User"
> ' and it will output the matches and the commit id. However, if I
> wanted to filter on something like "Signed-off-by: Joe User", then it
> is a little harder to dig for the commit id.
>
> Is there a better way of doing this? Or should I accept the fact that
> git wasn't designed to filter info like this very quickly?
>
> I guess what I was looking to do was embed some metadata inside the
> commit message and parse through it at a later time (ie like a
> bugzilla number or something).
>
> Any thoughts/tips/tricks would be helpful.
Maybe:
git log | awk -v sob="Joe User" '$1 == "commit" {commit = $2} /Signed-off-by:/ {if (match($0, sob)) print commit}'
Best regards
Uwe
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