How to find a specific git author

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I'm trying to find all commits made by Matt, but in my repository there are a couple of users with similar names (e.g., Matthew), and git log --author="Matt" covers these users that are not Matt.

Is there a way to say to git do not be that smart and filter only the string that I'm looking for?

possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4259996/how-can-i-view-a-git-log-of-just-one-users-commits — Priyanshu Shekhar, Oct 21 '15 at 14:15
Not actually. The solutions proposed have the same problems that I mentioned here. — Gustavo Pinto, Oct 21 '15 at 14:17
Then I don't think there is any other better way to do that using git commands. Probably you can use some shell command for that. — Priyanshu Shekhar, Oct 21 '15 at 14:24
Other way around is in GUI, click the author's username from anywhere in the commit history, and the commits you can see filtered commits by that author's username — Priyanshu Shekhar, Oct 21 '15 at 14:28
GUI will not help much, because I need to do this on thousand of commits. The --author flag supports regular expressions. But `--author="^Matt$"` does not work, although it works on grep. — Gustavo Pinto, Oct 21 '15 at 14:35

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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If you read this answer carefully, and the git log docs, you could do that either by:

using -F flag (which treats the string as a string to look for, not a pattern), or
using -E flag along with a regexp

Note that to do that, you have to think of the author as the full author name, which I believe is the same, that git log without filtering prints.

Using -F flag (I checked it for me and it worked):

$ git log -F --author='Matt <matt@matts.email.com>'

Using regexp:

$ git log -E --author='^Matt\s<(.+)>$'

I tested both on my git console, and both worked.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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answered Oct 21 '15 at 14:41

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Great. I didn't know about the -F and -E flags. – Gustavo Pinto Oct 21 '15 at 14:46

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