Kilian's homepage and public feed Zola 2026-09-17T00:00:00+00:00 https://kilko.de/tags/git/atom.xml 2026-09-17T00:00:00+00:00 2026-09-17T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://kilko.de/feed/til/git-pickaxe/ <p>Sometimes you want to find out when a specific term was added or removed that might not be directly mentioned in a commit message. This is where <code>git log -S &lt;pattern&gt;</code>, apparently also referred to as "git pickaxe" comes in useful.</p> <pre class="giallo z-code"><code data-lang="shellscript"><span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-entity z-name">$</span><span class="z-string"> git</span><span class="z-string"> log</span><span class="z-constant"> -</span><span class="z-constant">S</span><span class="z-string"> ZLIB_BUF_MAX</span><span class="z-constant"> -</span><span class="z-constant">-oneline</span></span> <span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-entity z-name">e01503b</span><span class="z-string"> zlib:</span><span class="z-string"> allow</span><span class="z-string"> feeding</span><span class="z-string"> more</span><span class="z-string"> than</span><span class="z-string"> 4GB</span><span class="z-string"> in</span><span class="z-string"> one</span><span class="z-string"> go</span></span> <span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-entity z-name">ef49a7a</span><span class="z-string"> zlib:</span><span class="z-string"> zlib</span><span class="z-string"> can</span><span class="z-string"> only</span><span class="z-string"> process</span><span class="z-string"> 4GB</span><span class="z-string"> at</span><span class="z-string"> a</span><span class="z-string"> time</span></span></code></pre> <p>via <a rel="external" href="https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Searching#_git_log_searching">Git - Searching</a>, example also stolen directly from there</p>