On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 07:01:37PM +0300, Mikhail wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 06:57:36PM +0300, Mikhail wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 09:16:45AM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 11:00:16PM -0700, Evan Silberman wrote:
> > > > Hey, I had another idea that I could implement mostly by copy-pasting.
> > > > Or pattern-matching if you will. Patch adds got log -a author-pattern to
> > > > filter commits by author. By analogy with git log --author, hg log
> > > > --user, rlog -w. (Feature is missing from fossil timeline, svn log.)
> > > > 
> > > > Caveats vs. git: no matching -c for committer, no support for multiple
> > > > instances of the option.
> > > 
> > > Any reason why author/committer couldn't be matched by -S as well,
> > > instead of adding a new option?
> > 
> > Commit messages usually contains text like 'ok stsp@', which will be
> > matched in case of -S, and it's probably is not what desired.
> > 
> > The patch applies and works well.
> 
> Well, just got what you probably meant - one is supposed to write full
> author info, like 'stsp@openbsd.org' to get proper result, so probably
> -S matching author/committer is a right way.

Yes. If a regex matches things you don't want to see, then the regex
can be improved to match only the things you want to see.