> > > Ok, so I just tried looking for all patches that affected a particular > > > function, and came up with no suitable search method. The -S option only > > > searches for patches that add or remove that symbol. > > > > Shoulda said -G. Sorry. > > Interesting. I was wondering why I didn't find it before... I find that > option on wheezy, but not on RHEL6... I currently need it only on the RHEL6 > machine, so even more impetus to re-install that machine to RHEL7. Yeah… I don't develop on outdated userland, and that precludes a lot of distros, and a lot of versions thereof. > > > but again, need to manually sort through the output and iteratively > > > git blame through commits mentioned in a function and that is limited > > > by missing commits that remove lines. > > > > -L :funcname:thefile or graph -Gfuncname --, kinda does it. Not sure if > > it deals well with renames. > > And -L nor git graph even exist on wheezy, so I should upgrade to jessie... git graph is the alias from the first email in this thread.