log: teach --invert-grep option

"git log --grep=<string>" shows only commits with messages that
match the given string, but sometimes it is useful to be able to
show only commits that do *not* have certain messages (e.g. "show
me ones that are not FIXUP commits").

Originally, we had the invert-grep flag in grep_opt, but because
"git grep --invert-grep" does not make sense except in conjunction
with "--files-with-matches", which is already covered by
"--files-without-matches", it was moved it to revisions structure.
To have the flag there expresses the function to the feature better.

When the newly inserted two tests run, the history would have commits
with messages "initial", "second", "third", "fourth", "fifth", "sixth"
and "Second", committed in this order.  The commits that does not match
either "th" or "Sec" is "second" and "initial". For the case insensitive
case only "initial" matches.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Junghans <ottxor@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

5 files changed, 25 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index deb8cca917..05aa997fd1 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ if it is part of the log message.
 	Limit the commits output to ones that match all given `--grep`,
 	instead of ones that match at least one.
 
+--invert-grep::
+	Limit the commits output to ones with log message that do not
+	match the pattern specified with `--grep=<pattern>`.
+
 -i::
 --regexp-ignore-case::
 	Match the regular expression limiting patterns without regard to letter
diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
index 06bf262087..53857f0bbf 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
@@ -1428,7 +1428,7 @@ __git_log_gitk_options="
 # Options that go well for log and shortlog (not gitk)
 __git_log_shortlog_options="
 	--author= --committer= --grep=
-	--all-match
+	--all-match --invert-grep
 "
 
 __git_log_pretty_formats="oneline short medium full fuller email raw format:"
diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index 615535c984..84b33a33ca 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -1952,6 +1952,8 @@ static int handle_revision_opt(struct rev_info *revs, int argc, const char **arg
 		grep_set_pattern_type_option(GREP_PATTERN_TYPE_PCRE, &revs->grep_filter);
 	} else if (!strcmp(arg, "--all-match")) {
 		revs->grep_filter.all_match = 1;
+	} else if (!strcmp(arg, "--invert-grep")) {
+		revs->invert_grep = 1;
 	} else if ((argcount = parse_long_opt("encoding", argv, &optarg))) {
 		if (strcmp(optarg, "none"))
 			git_log_output_encoding = xstrdup(optarg);
@@ -2848,7 +2850,7 @@ static int commit_match(struct commit *commit, struct rev_info *opt)
 				     (char *)message, strlen(message));
 	strbuf_release(&buf);
 	unuse_commit_buffer(commit, message);
-	return retval;
+	return opt->invert_grep ? !retval : retval;
 }
 
 static inline int want_ancestry(const struct rev_info *revs)
diff --git a/revision.h b/revision.h
index a6205307cf..b0b82e766e 100644
--- a/revision.h
+++ b/revision.h
@@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ struct rev_info {
 
 	/* Filter by commit log message */
 	struct grep_opt	grep_filter;
+	/* Negate the match of grep_filter */
+	int invert_grep;
 
 	/* Display history graph */
 	struct git_graph *graph;
diff --git a/t/t4202-log.sh b/t/t4202-log.sh
index 99ab7ca21f..5f2b290d2b 100755
--- a/t/t4202-log.sh
+++ b/t/t4202-log.sh
@@ -212,6 +212,21 @@ test_expect_success 'log --grep' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+cat > expect << EOF
+second
+initial
+EOF
+test_expect_success 'log --invert-grep --grep' '
+	git log --pretty="tformat:%s" --invert-grep --grep=th --grep=Sec >actual &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'log --invert-grep --grep -i' '
+	echo initial >expect &&
+	git log --pretty="tformat:%s" --invert-grep -i --grep=th --grep=Sec >actual &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'log --grep option parsing' '
 	echo second >expect &&
 	git log -1 --pretty="tformat:%s" --grep sec >actual &&