find commit by subject line from git-CodePudding

I know a commit with subject should be in git, but do not know which branch it belong to. how can I find the commit has specific subject?

Below command only run on current branch:

git log --oneline |grep subject

CodePudding user response：

I think that you can grep the log directly with:
git log --grep="subject"

CodePudding user response：

:/^[^\n]*subject names the most recent commit with that in its subject reachable from any ref. git branch --contains ':/^[^\n]*subject' shows all the branches containing that commit. For script usage git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' refs/heads --contains ':/^[^\n]*subject' won't gratuitously add markup.

If you don't want to confine the search to just the subject line you can lose the ^[^\n]* anchor.