Search all of Git history for a string [duplicate]

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Git can search diffs with the -S option (it’s called pickaxe in the docs)

git log -S password

This will find any commit that added or removed the string password. Here a few options:

  • -p: will show the diffs. If you provide a file (-p file), it will generate a patch for you.
  • -G: looks for differences whose added or removed line matches the given regexp, as opposed to -S, which “looks for differences that introduce or remove an instance of string”.
  • --all: searches over all branches and tags; alternatively, use --branches[=<pattern>] or --tags[=<pattern>]

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