'git --grep' doesn't grep notes?

2012-08-27 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I have a note attached to a commit, but the text of the note isn't treated as part of the commit for the purposes of grep. For example: mkdir /tmp/foo cd /tmp/foo git init git commit --allow-empty -m 'Blank commit.' git notes add -m 'Find me!' git log --show-notes --regexp-

Inverting the --committer option to git-log with v1.7.5.4

2012-08-26 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I wanted to search a repository for all commits that were *not* committed by a particular person. While I eventually managed to build a regular expression that worked for my limited use case, it seems like there ought to be a more sensible way to find the data I'm looking for. As an example, this