Fixes tag confusion

[Nicholas Mc Guire]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 09:46:41PM +0200, Valentin Vidi?? wrote:
> 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
>
thanks - yes that does it for my case - I did not see
the function name as a regex - thanks for the clarification !

thx!
hofrat