Fixes tag confusion

Valentin Vidić vvidic at valentin-vidic.from.hr
Mon Apr 13 15:46:41 EDT 2020


On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 07:15:17PM +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> linux-stable$ git log -L:get_fs_type:fs/filesystems.c | grep "^commit "
> commit d8e9650dff48055057253ca30933605bd7d0733b
> commit 79c0b2df79eb56fc71e54c75cd7fb3acf84370f9
> commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
>  
>  I see neither of the fix nor the fixed commit ? 
>  This is on a Debian 10.3 with git version 2.20.1
> 
>  It does not seem to be a rename issue - so I'm a bit lost on this one
>  Is this a wrong expectation on my side - or am I using git in some wrong way here ?

In this case it seems there is a function __get_fs_type earlier in the file
that gets matched instead:

  static struct file_system_type *__get_fs_type(const char *name, int len)
  {
  ...
  }

  struct file_system_type *get_fs_type(const char *name)
  {
  ...
  }

You can try for example:

$ git log -L ':[*]get_fs_type:fs/filesystems.c'  fs/filesystems.c | grep ^commit
$ git log -L ':[^_]get_fs_type:fs/filesystems.c' fs/filesystems.c | grep ^commit
$ git log -L ':\bget_fs_type:fs/filesystems.c'   fs/filesystems.c | grep ^commit
commit 26c5d78c976ca298e59a56f6101a97b618ba3539
commit 41124db869b7e00e12052555f8987867ac01d70c
commit 7f78e0351394052e1a6293e175825eb5c7869507
commit d8e9650dff48055057253ca30933605bd7d0733b
commit 79c0b2df79eb56fc71e54c75cd7fb3acf84370f9
commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2

-- 
Valentin



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