From: Mikhail Subject: Re: [patch] filter log by author pattern To: Evan Silberman , gameoftrees@openbsd.org Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2022 23:08:22 +0300 On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 09:20:43PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > 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. One thing which came to my mind - using 'got log' in scripts for statistics, with '-a' one can be 100% sure to get proper results, but with -S by an author we can hit more matches, if somebody will put an email in commit message.