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Git command to search history of a file for some text. This helps find when something was removed from a file.
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| #!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
| # Usage: | |
| # To search for all occurrences in history of text "perform" in app/models/model.rb: | |
| # | |
| # git search-file-history perform app/models/model.rb | |
| # | |
| # TODO: A good future enhancement would be to show the commit right after the last occurrence, to see where it was removed. | |
| # | |
| text, filename = ARGV | |
| puts `git grep #{text} $(git rev-list --all -- #{filename}) -- #{filename}` |
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