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Comment by JetSetIlly

11 hours ago

Some nice ideas but the regexes should include word boundaries. For example:

git log -i -E --grep="\b(fix|fixed|fixes|bug|broken)\b" --name-only --format='' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20

I have a project with a large package named "debugger". The presence of "bug" within "debugger" causes the original command to go crazy.

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nozzlegear  3 hours ago

This needs a small tweak to work on macOS, where git uses the POSIX version of grep (which doesn't support `\b`). You need to use the Perl Regexp option by switching -E with -P:

git log -i -P --grep="\b(fix|fixed|fixes|bug|broken)\b" --name-only --format='' | sort | uniq -c | gsort -nr | head -20