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Alex Zhukovskiy
Alex Zhukovskiy

Reputation: 10015

Search for a text accross all revision of a file

I have a file which contained some text at some point which was then deleted.

I forgot which exact commit and in what branch it existed.

Is there any way to search all revisions of a file accross all the branches and find a commit where file contains specific text?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 37

Answers (1)

Baklap4
Baklap4

Reputation: 4202

For this purpose you can use the -S option to git log:

git log -S'bar' -- foo.rb

This search the text bar in the file foo.rb

if you want to search through all diffs you can do: git log -G'bar' -- foo.rb

When -S or -G finds a change, show all the changes in that changeset, not just the files that contain the change in .

NOTE: This search is casesensitive.

If you add -i you can search case insensitive. Making the complete command:

git log -i -S'bar' -- foo.rb

NOTE 2: This searches only in your current branch.

If you want to search accross all branch you should add the --all flag

Pretend as if all the refs in refs/, along with HEAD, are listed on the command line as .

The complete command will be:

git log --all -i -S'bar' -- foo.rb

The output will be something like this:

$ git log --all -i -S'bar' -- foo.rb

commit 53106e9cd319a2d8f960a3bbf2731acd0699a54f (feature/x)
Author: name <email>
Date:   Fri Jan 18 13:59:32 2019 +0100

    Added word

Upvotes: 4

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