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I have a piece of code in another than my current branch in my git repo, and I am not sure which commit and which branch. How can I search in all files that I committed until now for a specific string (and afterwards show the surrounding of that line of code)?
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This is also possible using git log . You can perform a search for a string, for example, a variable or method, and git log will give you the commits, adding or deleting the string from the history.
Looking up changes for a specific commit If you have the hash for a commit, you can use the git show command to display the changes for that single commit. The output is identical to each individual commit when using git log -p .
`git grep` command is used to search in the checkout branch and local files.
Use git grep to locate the commit:
git grep "string" $(git rev-list --all) The git rev-list --all makes it search the entire history of the project.
That will give an output like this:
<commit>:<path>:<matched line> Then you can use git branch --contains to find out which branch the commit is on:
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