Re: Most recent revision that contains a string

From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Aug 21, 2016, 02:46 UTC
Message-ID: <20160821024647.GA19536@starla>
In-Reply-To: <87d1l3ce40.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org>

Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> wrote:

> What's the easiest way to find the most recent revision (of any file in
> the repository, including those that have been deleted in the current
> HEAD) that contains a given string?

I normally do something like:

	git log -r --raw -p -SSTRING
	git log -r --raw -p -GREGEXP

You can also add --diff-filter=D to filter only on deletes.

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