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Search a string in files in repo history

In case you need to check if some string existed on a old version of a file in your repository history, Git provide this command:

$ git log -S'text to search' --oneline --name-status

In case you have this error message: ''' warning: inexact rename detection was skipped due to too many files. warning: you may want to set your diff.renameLimit variable to at least 1229 and retry the command. '''

You can fix it by setting an upper limit like this:

$ git config diff.renameLimit 99999
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