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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Most recent revision that contains a string
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 02:46:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160821024647.GA19536@starla> (raw)
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.


Btw, please don't set these headers on kernel.org lists:

	Mail-Copies-To: never
	Mail-Followup-To: git@vger.kernel.org

Like any mail server, vger fails from time-to-time and
reply-to-all prevents it from being a single point of failure.
Thanks.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-21  2:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-20 21:41 Most recent revision that contains a string Nikolaus Rath
2016-08-21  1:30 ` Josh Triplett
2016-08-21  8:13   ` Andreas Schwab
2016-08-21  8:48     ` Josh Triplett
2016-08-21  2:46 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2016-08-22 18:06   ` Nikolaus Rath
2016-08-23 19:36     ` Junio C Hamano

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