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I was in my GIT store somewhere, in which there is a word "Foo", which does the first two hundred hundreds.

If there is any way to find a revised number, where he bought the last time without fish?

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This pyakseye ( -S ) option

  git log -SFoo - path_containing_change  

(You can also add a time limit: - since = 2009.1.1 - = 2010.1.1 )

  -S & lt; String & gt;   
 
 See the differences, which are  & lt; String & gt; Introduce or remove a frequency of . 
 Note that this is only different from string difference output; See Pixx Entry for more details. 
   diffcore-pickaxe  

This change is used to find the filepeare that represents the changes that define a specified string Touch.
When diffcore-pickaxe is in use, it checks whether there are filepears whose "origin" is the string specified in the side and does not have a "result" side
This kind of filepeare The "string that appears in this change" represents.
It also checks for the opposite case which loses the specified string.

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Update 2014:

Since then, you can (from):

  git log -p - -all -S 'search string' git log -p --all -G 'matches regular expression'  

This log lists the commands that give the given search string / To add or remove regescs (usually) the most recent first. The difference between the -p ( - patch ) option appears where the pattern was added or removed, you can see it in context.

After receiving a relevant commitment, the text you were looking for (e.g., 8beeff00d ), find the branch in which the commit is:

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