搜索git使用Regex提交

Question

I have a git repository that contains hundreds of commits and several branches. How to search a particular commit that contains a certain string eg "helper function"? Ideally, the string can be denoted by a regex.

Answer 1

Newer versions of git support git log -G<regex> :

git log -G'helper.*function' --full-history --all

it will search for the regex in the diff of each commit, and only display commits which introduced a change that matches the regex.

Answer 2

Credits go to this answer :

git log --all --grep='Build 0051'

# case insensitive
git log --all --grep='Build 0051' -i