Per Cederqvist <ced...@opera.com> writes:
> I think it does make sense to document this with the --author/--committer
> options.
>
> That wording would however make me assume that --all-match could also
> be used, so that
>
> git log --all-match --author ceder --author cibot
>
> would list nothing (since there are no authors that match both
> "ceder" and "cibot" in this codebase). That isn't the fact, though.
> It seems to list all commits that have either ceder or cibot as author,
> just as if I had not used --all-match.
>
> As a reader of the man-page, I would prefer to have the exact list
> of options in the documentation. (I realize that it will make it harder
> to maintain.)
>
> /ceder
Ok, take 2.
This makes `--all-match` the only one that explicitly mentions that
the option applies to patterns given with the `--grep` option; from
an end-user's point of view, --author/--committer is not given via
the `--grep` option, so it may help to alleviate the above issue.
All others use "limiting patterns" consistently, so that eyeballing
for the phrase would catch things like "--invert-grep", "-E", etc.
and it would be easier to keep future additions to conform to the
convention, hopefully.
Documentation/rev-list-options.txt | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index 4f009d4..51ead72 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ endif::git-rev-list[]
expression). With more than one `--author=<pattern>`,
commits whose author matches any of the given patterns are
chosen (similarly for multiple `--committer=<pattern>`).
++
+Options that affect how a limiting pattern matches (listed below,
+such as `-i`, `-E`, `--invert-grep`) can also be used to affect
+these options.
--grep-reflog=<pattern>::
Limit the commits output to ones with reflog entries that
@@ -70,7 +74,7 @@ endif::git-rev-list[]
--invert-grep::
Limit the commits output to ones with log message that do not
- match the pattern specified with `--grep=<pattern>`.
+ match the regular expression limiting patterns.
-i::
--regexp-ignore-case::
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