Re: How to find a commit that introduces (not removes) a string?

From: Vijay Lakshminarayanan <laksvij@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 3, 2011, 16:13 UTC
Message-ID: <87zkgdgp5q.fsf@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <j8to8h$vqd$1@dough.gmane.org>

Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I know about git log's -S / -G, but I'm unable to make these search through *introduced* strings only. Is there a way to do so?

This appears to work:

$ for ref in `git log -SWORD --pretty=format:"%h"` ; do 
    git log -1 -p $ref | grep WORD | grep -E '^[+]' > /dev/null ; 
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then 
        echo $ref; 
    fi ;
  done

substitute WORD for what you're looking for. Note that it is repeated twice.

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> Thanks!
>
> PS: I also read [1], but although the author claims to be interested in introduced strings only, he seems to be satisfied with -G, which slightly puzzles me.
>
> [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5816134/git-finding-a-commit-that-introduced-a-string

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Cheers
~vijay