From 020c1e77489b772f854bb3288b9c8d2818a6bf9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: EuAndreh Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 02:17:12 -0300 Subject: git mv src/content/* src/content/en/ --- .../en/tils/2020/10/11/search-git-history.adoc | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/content/en/tils/2020/10/11/search-git-history.adoc (limited to 'src/content/en/tils/2020/10') diff --git a/src/content/en/tils/2020/10/11/search-git-history.adoc b/src/content/en/tils/2020/10/11/search-git-history.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000..696368c --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/en/tils/2020/10/11/search-git-history.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ += Search changes to a filename pattern in Git history +:categories: git + +:yet: link:../../08/14/browse-git.html +:another: link:../../08/16/git-search.html +:entry: link:../../08/28/grep-online.html + +This is {yet}[yet] {another}[another] {entry}["search in Git"] TIL entry. You +could say that Git has a unintuitive CLI, or that is it very powerful. + +I wanted to search for an old file that I new that was in the history of the +repository, but was deleted some time ago. So I didn't really remember the +name, only bits of it. + +I immediately went to the list of TILs I had written on searching in Git, but it +wasn't readily obvious how to do it, so here it goes: + +[source,sh] +---- +git log -- *pattern* +---- + +You could add globs before the pattern to match things on any directory, and add +our `-p` friend to promptly see the diffs: + +[source,sh] +---- +git log -p -- **/*pattern* +---- -- cgit v1.2.3