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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5•se>
To: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra•com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>,
	Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net>,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff --check: use colour
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:10:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45B9E1A2.40505@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17849.17947.645022.282882@lisa.zopyra.com>

Bill Lear wrote:
> On Friday, January 26, 2007 at 00:41:42 (+0100) Johannes Schindelin writes:
>> ...
>> 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:
> 
> 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.
> 
> I did
> 
> 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...
> 
> Is it really '-S--check'?
> 

Yes. '-S--check' will start a pickaxe search for the string '--check' in
the repository, covering all the history and the likes. It can take quite
a long time (even if used properly ;-)), but it's certainly better than having
to look manually.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5•se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Tel: +46 8-230225                  Fax: +46 8-230231

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-26 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-24 14:05 [PATCH] diff --check: use colour Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-24 23:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-25  9:16   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-25 22:23     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-25 22:49       ` Bill Lear
2007-01-25 23:41         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-26  0:06           ` Bill Lear
2007-01-26  4:31             ` Jeff King
2007-01-26 11:10             ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2007-01-26 12:05             ` Andy Parkins
2007-01-26 13:52               ` Bill Lear
2007-01-26 15:49           ` Bill Lear
2007-01-26 16:00             ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-26 16:07               ` Bill Lear
2007-01-26 16:06             ` Bill Lear
2007-01-26 17:19               ` Jeff King
2007-01-26 17:26               ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-26 16:37             ` Andy Parkins
2007-01-26 17:41               ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-26  0:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-26 21:15   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-18  0:25     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-18  0:47       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-18  1:06         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-18  1:15           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-18 16:27             ` [PATCH for "master"] " Johannes Schindelin

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