Earlier today I was searching for the commit that changed a function name from getReportHtml to getReport.
I couldn't find it using the pickaxe, so I found it by manual searching.
Now that I know which commit had the change, I can see the change in my git diff output:
- function getReportHtml(filters) {
+ function getReport(type, filters) {
I tried the following searches:
git log -SgetReportHtml
git log -SgetReportHtml --diff-filter=M
git log -GgetReportHtml
They found commits, but not the one that changed the name.
This is the relevant section of the git-log man page:
-S<string>
Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of the specified string (i.e. addition/deletion) in a file. Intended for the scripter's use.
It is useful when you're looking for an exact block of code (like a struct), and want to know the history of that block since it first came into being: use the feature iteratively
to feed the interesting block in the preimage back into -S, and keep going until you get the very first version of the block.
-G<regex>
Look for differences whose patch text contains added/removed lines that match <regex>.
The commit that introduced the change did change the number of occurrences of 'getReportHtml'. So why is it not found by the pickaxe?
