Search in forks for a fix/feature/anything good in commits from fork authors

how-to-search-in-forks

# Motivation: you want to search in forks for an urgent fix

# I've wanted to do this a few times but couldn't find any other way to,
# so wrote this.

# 1) git clone main repo

# 2) in cloned folder, fetch all commits using script from https://gist.github.com/zaczheng/7003545

# 3) search in forks(excluding main author) for patterns in
#   i) commit message
#   git --no-pager log --format="%h %cd %ae %s %b" --grep=<pattern> | grep -v <author's email>

#  ii) in commit itself(i.e. code)
#   git --no-pager log --format="%h %cd %ae %s %b" --S<pattern> | grep -v <author's email>

#  iii) extras: add other stuff like --since, whatever. man git-log