I need to find all git commits, that deleted specific comments in the code like:

// Revision

I tried git log -S'// Revision' but this gives me an error: fatal: ambiguous argument 'Revision'': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.

Guess this needs some kind of escaping?!

Is there a way to give me a list of all commits where the search string got removed and also an easy way to see the whole diff for each commit?

CodePudding user response：

Try to use git log --diff-filter=D -p -S "// Revision"

--diff-filter=D: selects only files that are removed
-p: Generate patch. That option gives the diff result to the search.
-S "string": famous git pickaxe, search for a string in all commit files and return the commit that contain the string.
The result should be the diff for the files he found the "// Revision" string, and that string got removed.