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Git blame addition or removal of string in file
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Lockyy commented Feb 28, 2020 •
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https://stackoverflow.com/a/4404551

If you know the contents of the line, this is an ideal use case for:

git log -S <string> path/to/file

which shows you commits which introduce or remove an instance of that string. There's also the -G which does the same thing with regular expressions! See man git-log and search for the -G and -S options, or pickaxe (the friendly name for these features) for more information.

The -S option is actually mentioned in the header of the git-blame manpage too, in the description section, where it gives an example using git log -S....

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