Jeremy Kun on Nostr: TIL this git command searches the history of a repo for a string (including the first ...
TIL this git command searches the history of a repo for a string (including the first commit that introduced the string)
git log -S <search string> --source --all
Useful for finding the origin of an error message that has moved around the codebase. h/t
https://stackoverflow.com/a/5816177/438830Published at
2025-02-03 23:13:57 UTCEvent JSON
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