On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 5:16 PM Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Git log -S or -G make it possible to find commits that have particular > words in the changed lines. Sometimes it would be helpful to search for > words in the removed lines or in the added lines specifically. From the > implementation, I had the impression that this would be easy to implement. > The main question would be how to allow the user to specify what is > wanted. As far as I know this isn't possible. The --diff-filter option is similar in spirit, but e.g. adding "foo" and then removing it from an existing file will both be covered under --diff-filter=M, so that isn't what you're looking for.