如何只在我提交的文件中执行`git grep`？

Question

Is there a way to make git grep only match files that I have committed?

The purpose is to grep in the contents of the file, not the log message.

Answer 1

author="your name"

git log --pretty="%H" --author="$author" | while read commit_hash; do git show --oneline --name-only $commit_hash | tail -n+2; done | sort | uniq |xargs grep -i "String to grep"

OR shorter version:

author="your name"
git log --no-merges --author="$author" --name-only --pretty=format:"" | sort -u |xargs grep -i <string>

Orignal answer used to get the files from a particular user

Answer 2

If you want to grep in the diff of a commit, you should probably use git log -G or git log -S :

git log -p --author="your name" -G pattern

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Both -G and -S will look for the pattern in the diff introduced by a commit,
the difference is ( git help log ) :

To illustrate the difference between -S<regex> --pickaxe-regex and -G<regex> , consider a commit with the following diff in the same file:

 + return !regexec(regexp, two->ptr, 1, &regmatch, 0); ... - hit = !regexec(regexp, mf2.ptr, 1, &regmatch, 0); 

While git log -G"regexec\\(regexp" will show this commit, git log -S"regexec\\(regexp" --pickaxe-regex will not (because the number of occurrences of that string did not change).

When using -p in conjunction with -G or -S , only the files matching the pattern will be displayed.