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hhh
hhh

Reputation: 52860

How can I search a word in Git repo over the whole history?

Suppose I remember that I saved a word "XYZword" to some file in a repo but it got killed and I can only remember the initial part "XYZ" but nothing about the time or file. How can I grep this "XYZ" over the whole history?

Upvotes: 12

Views: 5418

Answers (2)

jbowes
jbowes

Reputation: 4150

git log -S[SOME_WORD_OR_REGEX] will search your history for any changes that contain the word or regex you supplied. For more information, check out the pickaxe entry in gitdiffcore(7).

Upvotes: 6

wpgreenway
wpgreenway

Reputation: 1719

To search the full history of the current branch and get the line numbers:

git grep -n "XYZ" $(git rev-list --all)

Upvotes: 18

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