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Date:   Sun, 21 Aug 2016 01:48:37 -0700
From:   Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To:     Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: Most recent revision that contains a string
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On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 10:13:33AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 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.