Questions tagged [git-grep]
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Git Grep Multiple Words on Multiple Lines
I want to git grep the files which has two pre-specified words (if both exist, i.e. ANDing), assume these two words are word1 and word2
I tried
git grep -e 'word1' --and -e 'word2'
And also I tried
git grep 'word1'.*'word2'
but both retrieve the…
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git blame of particular lines inside all files filtered with grep command
I know how to run gblame inside a file.
I know how to grep a content inside all files in a directory.
I'd like to see gblame of particular lines around that one that contains a content. Example:
$ blame -R "content" ./
I see a list of files. I want…
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Is there a way to execute git-grep command on a remote repository tree?
I would like to search the contents of files located in one of subtrees of the remote repository (origin/master).
git-grep documentation says that command works on a current working tree. Consequently, how can I search through files that make up…
Marek Bocian
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Hoogle Git repository
Is there a way to use type signature searches on not just the current working set, but the entire history of a project?
The purpose would be to find and possibly recycle Haskell functions that were previously written and tested, but removed due to…
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Git Grep color options explained and/or compared
I'm trying to custom color my Git.
After reading through the documentation, I've found my options I wanted to set.
Everything was working fine except the Grep.
I've realised, I haven't really used it in the past.
I wanted to set colors for it with…
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How to get `git grep` to show `git blame`-like information
I'd like to git grep in the usual way, but with something like the additional insight of git blame in the displayed results.
In some instances I probably would benefit from including the metadata in the search query (show only results written by…
sh1
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Git log grep: How to match commit-message substrings regardless of word-order?
I tried this
git log -i --all --grep='/(?=.*fix)(?=.*a)(?=.*bug)/'
but did not work.
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git-grep not using multiple threads
I am trying to use git grep to search all revisions of a very large repository. The command I am using is:
$ git rev-list --all | xargs git grep -I --threads 10 --line-number \
--only-matching "SomeString"
I am using the latest official version…
Chris
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How can I write a git alias that takes a string as an argument
I would like to write a git alias for:
git log --all --grep='Big boi'
What I have so far is:
[alias]
search = "!f() { str=${@}; echo $str; git log --all --grep=$str; }; f"
Which echos the string perfectly fine but gives an error, I can't seem…
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Finding files with both of two specified terms via git grep
I'm attempting to find files in my git repository using git grep and I have no easy way of doing so without manual searching. I have found one workaround like this:
git grep -l 'term1' | xargs -i grep -l term2 {}
But I'm wondering if there is a way…
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Turn off line wrapping when running git grep
Sometimes I do a git grep, and there's that one line which is so long it takes up half a page or more because of line wrapping. How can I tell git grep to turn of line wrapping, instead requiring me to scroll to the right if I want to see the rest…
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How do I see the commit sha when I use git grep?
I tried using git grep -i 'search' README.md and the output found some lines I was interested in looking at, but these lines did not print out the git sha's so that I could get more information about these commits. The output looked like…
Daniel Kaplan
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Git grep url regex
I am trying to create bash script that checks my source code to flag absolutely url's as all of our devs should be using relative url's when it comes to internal links.
I was thinking to create a bash script that could then be included as part of…
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Git config edit color with multiple styles
does any of you know if there a way to apply git color with both bold and underline (or as a more general question - apply color with multiple style args)?
I try to set git config color.grep.filename to be green, bold and underline...
It seems as if…
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