Subject: Re: Can't find the revelant commit with git-log

From: Francis Moreau <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:52:15 +0100

René Scharfe <[email-masked]> writes:

> Am 26.01.2011 19:11, schrieb René Scharfe:
>> - Make git grep report non-matching path specs (new feature).
>
> This is a bit complicated because grep can work on files, index entries
> as well as versioned objects and supports wildcards,
> so it's not that easy to tell if a path spec matches something or is a
> rather typo.  But it's not impossible either, of course.

I don't understand this for the following use case:

   $ cd ~/linux-2.6/drivers/pci/
   $ git grep blacklist v2.6.27 -- drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c

From what you said, it sounds that git grep is actually searching the
string 'somewhere'. But where ?

Thanks
-- 
Francis