[buug] Git question

Ian Zimmerman itz at buug.org
Sat May 23 12:58:04 PDT 2015


I just hit a problem in my project that I could swear to have fixed.  I
looked at the current version of the source file and indeed, no trace of
the fix, whose form and even rough spelling I could remember.

So my question is, is there something like grep to look for a pattern in
the git _history_?  I did "man git-grep" but that seems to only search
the current revisions of all registered files (either the working tree
rev or the one in the index).

Unfortunately I am not very good at coming up with descriptive log
messages, so trying to find what happened via git log would be hard.

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