I managed to get a list of pre-commits and commits by using PowerShell script but noticed some unwanted lines on the result is there any way to filter only commit and Pre-commit-Verified from the list? user entered description data. I am new to PowerShell help is much appreciated
git log -5 --no-merges master | Select-String -Pattern "commit"
By default, Select-String's -Pattern parameter accepts regexes (regular expressions), which allow you to describe desired matches using sophisticated rules:
git log -5 --no-merges master |
Select-String -Pattern '^commit |^\s+Precommit-'
^commit matches string commit, follwed by a space, at the start of a line (^)
| is an alternation, meaning that the subexpression on either side is allowed to match.
^\s+Precommit- matches string Precommit-, preceded by one or more (+) whitespace characters (\s) at the start of the line (^).
This regex101.com page not you to experiment with the regex interactively (the panel on the right side also contains an explanation).
Note: Select-String, like PowerShell in general, is case-insensitive by default. You can request case-sensitive matching with the -CaseSensitive switch.
commit lines not immediately followed by a Precommit-Validate line, which this doesn't answer. Can Select-String work with arbitrary line gaggles like sed can?
Select-String doesn't directly support matching across multiple lines, except if you provide the whole file as a single, multi-line string as input. But there are definitely ways to make this work.