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= 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]
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git log -- *pattern*
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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]
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git log -p -- **/*pattern*
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