Given the following commits: ``` asottile@asottile-VirtualBox:/tmp$ git init test Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/test/.git/ asottile@asottile-VirtualBox:/tmp$ cd test/ asottile@asottile-VirtualBox:/tmp/test$ GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=foo@xxxxxxxxxxx GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=foo@xxxxxxxxxxx git commit --allow-empty -m "foo" [master (root-commit) c9df62b] foo asottile@asottile-VirtualBox:/tmp/test$ git commit -m "blah" --allow-empty [master 9e3ee9b] blah asottile@asottile-VirtualBox:/tmp/test$ git log commit 9e3ee9bc1adab2ae8eb1884a8f6237da18dfd27b Author: Anthony Sottile <asottile@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed May 31 08:40:59 2017 -0700 blah commit c9df62b93298a247fcfbe24ed4282ccf95448f47 Author: Anthony Sottile <foo@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed May 31 08:40:49 2017 -0700 foo asottile@asottile-VirtualBox:/tmp/test$ git log --grep bar --invert-grep --author=foo commit 9e3ee9bc1adab2ae8eb1884a8f6237da18dfd27b Author: Anthony Sottile <asottile@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed May 31 08:40:59 2017 -0700 blah commit c9df62b93298a247fcfbe24ed4282ccf95448f47 Author: Anthony Sottile <foo@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed May 31 08:40:49 2017 -0700 foo asottile@asottile-VirtualBox:/tmp/test$ git log --author=foocommit c9df62b93298a247fcfbe24ed4282ccf95448f47 Author: Anthony Sottile <foo@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed May 31 08:40:49 2017 -0700 foo ``` I expect the same output from the last two commands, but the `--invert-grep` one seems to match _all_ the commits. I can try and dig into this if I have time, just trying to get a count using this as a workaround git log --grep ... --invert-grep --format=%ce | grep ... | wc -l Anthony