How to find a commit that introduces (not removes) a string?

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How to find a commit that introduces (not removes) a string?

From: Sebastian Schuberth <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:52:22

Hi all,

I know about git log's -S / -G, but I'm unable to make these search through *introduced* strings only. Is there a way to do so?

Thanks!

PS: I also read [1], but although the author claims to be interested in introduced strings only, he seems to be satisfied with -G, which slightly puzzles me.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5816134/git-finding-a-commit-that-introduced-a-string

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Sebastian Schuberth

Re: How to find a commit that introduces (not removes) a string?

From: Neal Kreitzinger <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:52:22

On 11/3/2011 4:50 AM, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:
Hi all,

I know about git log's -S / -G, but I'm unable to make these search through *introduced* strings only. Is there a way to do so?

Thanks!

PS: I also read [1], but although the author claims to be interested in introduced strings only, he seems to be satisfied with -G, which slightly puzzles me.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5816134/git-finding-a-commit-that-introduced-a-string
If you are using linux, here is git diff command I use to find leftover 
debug statements.  I imagine the -S option will work the same in git 
log.  I pipe the results into grep to filter the results to show only 
the additions. (I'm using git 1.7.1)

$ git diff --unified=0 -S"DEBUG" <commit> <commit> -- <path> | grep -e 
"diff --" -e "+" | grep -v -e "@@" -e "+++"

maybe you will find this helpful.

v/r,
neal

Re: How to find a commit that introduces (not removes) a string?

From: Sebastian Schuberth <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:52:23

On 03.11.2011 10:50, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:
I know about git log's -S / -G, but I'm unable to make these search through *introduced* strings only. Is there a way to do so?
Thanks for your suggestions. However, I ended up simply doing

$ git diff --no-color FROM..TO | grep ^+[^+] | grep WORD

which works well for my case.

-- 
Sebastian Schuberth
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