git stash grep (bash)

git-stash-grep

stashgrep() {
  for i in `git stash list | awk -F ':' '{print $1}'`; do
    git stash show -p $i | grep -H --label="$i" "$1"
  done
}

If you switch to Tommy's suggestion, you also need to add IFS=$'\n', so the function would be:

stashgrep() {
  IFS=$'\n'
  for i in `git stash list --format="%gd"`; do
    git stash show -p $i | grep -H --label="$i" "$1"
  done
}

The code below is quite convenient, it searches across all stashes files containing "plist" and non-case sensitive "basic" in the filename. any change made to a file passing that is concatenated into test.txt then opened.

for sha in $(git rev-list -g stash); do git ls-tree -r $sha:; done | grep plist | grep basic -i | cut -f 1 | cut -d" " -f 3 | sort | uniq | xargs git show > test.txt; open test.txt

git stash list -G<regex> is all you need.

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git help stash:

list [<options>]
...
The command takes options applicable to the git log command to control what is shown and how. See git-log.

git help log:

-G<regex>
Look for differences whose patch text contains added/removed lines that match <regex>.

@unthought Beautiful. Thanks so much for this.