On Friday, 10 October 2014 11:01:03 UTC+2, Marat Shakurov wrote:
>
> how I can find a 'string' in a whole log of the project's commits
>
> I know there is:
> git log -p --grep=<string>
> and some options
>
> I don't know as correctly it to use
>
> I absolutely know, that the log of my project contains the string '
> *somestring1*', but those commands does not have any output:
>  
> git log -p --grep=somestring1
> git log -p --grep='somestring1'
> git log -p --grep='somestring1' -i
> git log -p --grep='somestring1' -i -F
> git log -p --grep='somestring1' -F
>
> What I doing wrong?
>
>
Git-log's --grep switch only searches commit messages, not commit diffs. To 
look for a specific string in commit diffs, use the -G switch. Check git-log's 
man page <http://git-scm.com/docs/git-log> or my answer to this SO post 
<http://stackoverflow.com/a/26337538/1752536> for more infos.

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