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From: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Most recent revision that contains a string
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 14:41:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1l3ce40.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> (raw)

Hello,

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 was hoping that "git grep" would do this (like in Mercurial), but as
far as I can tell it only greps through the working copy. Or is there a
trick that I'm missing?

Thanks,
-Nikolaus

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             reply	other threads:[~2016-08-20 21:41 UTC|newest]

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

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