On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Brian Foster <brian.foster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm a bit puzzled as to how to do find a commit which > removed a symbol. This is not a 'bisect' per se (or at > least I don't think it is ?); I know exactly what I am > looking for, but am not quite sure how to find it. > > I know that between tags A (older) and B (younger) > a certain symbol S, defined in file F, vanished. > A:F has S; B:F does not. (There are many commits > affecting F between A and B, albeit most don't involve > S per se.) S isn't mentioned in any commit comments, > else I could search the output of: git log A..B -- F > > Actually, using gitk(1) — gitk A..B -- F — I've found > what I'm looking for, so I guess what I'm now wondering > is if there's a better/easier/faster(/non-GUI ?) way of > doing this? (My git-newbie-ness may be showing here!) > You probably want git log -S'MySymbol' -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
