Re: git log filtering

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Hi,

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:

> 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}'

*grin* Why do you know --author, but not --grep?

git log --grep=Signed-off-by:\ Joe\ User

Ciao,
Dscho

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