Re: Most recent revision that contains a string

2016-08-23 Thread Junio C Hamano
Nikolaus Rath writes: >> 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. > > Huh?

Re: Most recent revision that contains a string

2016-08-22 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Aug 21 2016, Eric Wong wrote: > Nikolaus Rath 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

Re: Most recent revision that contains a string

2016-08-21 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 10:13:33AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > On Aug 20 2016, Josh Triplett 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;

Re: Most recent revision that contains a string

2016-08-21 Thread Andreas Schwab
On Aug 20 2016, Josh Triplett 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. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 5

Re: Most recent revision that contains a string

2016-08-20 Thread Eric Wong
Nikolaus Rath 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

Re: Most recent revision that contains a string

2016-08-20 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 02:41:35PM -0700, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > 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