Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sunday 20 May 2007 23:05, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> > I had expected that the set of commits found by the second search string >> > are a proper superset of those found by the first one. What's wrong here? >> > Why does a search for 'merge-base' not find occurences of >> > 'builtin-merge-base'? >> >> 71dfbf224 removes one line that has "git-merge-base$X" and adds >> one line that has "builtin-merge-base.o". If you count the >> number of occurences of substring "builtin-merge-base" in the >> preimage and the postimage, you see one addition. If you count >> the same for substring "merge-base", the net difference is 0. > > But is this how -S is *designed* to work? http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/14869/focus=14871 For the design background, http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/6214 - 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
