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Re: Most recent revision that contains a string

From
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Date
Aug 21, 2016, 08:48 UTC
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On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 10:13:33AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
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> On Aug 20 2016, Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> > If you want to find a change that introduces or removes a particular
> > string, you could use "git log -S".  That doesn't allow regexes,
> 
> It does, actually, see --pickaxe-regex.

Thanks; I found that after looking up "git log -G", which Eric Wong mentioned in another reply.

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  1. Nikolaus RathAug 20, 2016
  2. Josh TriplettAug 21, 2016
  3. Andreas SchwabAug 21, 2016
  4. Josh TriplettAug 21, 2016
  5. Eric WongAug 21, 2016
  6. Nikolaus RathAug 22, 2016
  7. Junio C HamanoAug 23, 2016

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