Search for a string in Git history

Git is one of the most powerful tools in a developers life, here's how to search for stuff in cli.


Kalle Tolonen
April 16, 2024


$ git log -p -S"string" | grep --color=auto -C 5 "string"

This will search for a string in your repo's history and print out five lines from the found string on wards.

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